Well, did you enjoy the Senate Judiciary Committee’s reality-TV miniseries of the Kavanaugh–Ford–Republican–Democrat smackdown? No, me neither. But that deep and very public dive into the muck and the mire which dominated so much of what we still laughably call “the news” for almost a month during September and October seems not to have been enough for some Democrats, foiled of the opportunity with which they thought Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination had presented them to keep him off the Supreme Court—and, incidentally, to wreck the career and reputation of a conservative judge. Representative Jerrold Nadler, for one, has no doubt that the American people’s appetite for character assassination (at least if the character is that of a Republican) and salacious gossip remains undiminished. Vote Democrat, said the Congressman—who most likely will be Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee if the Democrats take control of that chamber in November—and you’ll get plenty more where that came from.
Speaking on the eve of Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation vote this weekend [reported The New York Times], Mr. Nadler said that there was evidence that Senate Republicans and the fbi had overseen a “whitewash” investigation of the allegations and that the legitimacy of the Supreme Court was at stake. He sidestepped the issue of impeachment.
“It is not something we are eager to do,” Mr. Nadler said in an interview. “But [with] the Senate having failed to do its proper constitutionally mandated job of advise and consent, we are going