Originally Posted by
Guisslapp
Dick Durbin summarized it best:
“You are the nominee of President Donald John Trump. This is a president who has shown us consistently that he is contemptuous of the rule of law. He has said and done things as president, which we have never seen before in our history.
And that’s president who has decided that you are his man. You’re the person he wants on the Supreme Court, you are his personal choice, so are people nervous about this? Are they concerned about it? Of course they are.
The point I’m getting to is if you wonder why this reaction is taking place, it’s because what’s happening in this country. There are many of us who are concerned about the future of this country and the future of democracy, and you are asking for a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land where you will make decisions, the deciding vote, on things that will decide the course of history and where we are headed.”