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On the recordJuly 17, 2018
if there is one thing we have been able to rely on over the past half century or so, it is Democratic hysteria over Republican Supreme Court nominations. No sooner does a Republican President announce a nomination than the Democrats are off and running. It doesn't matter who the nominee is--the playbook is the same. The Democrats warn that equal rights are in jeopardy; that our system of government may not survive; in fact, that Americans may not survive. That is right. In the lead-up to Justice Gorsuch's confirmation, the head of one liberal organization stated that there was ``substantial evidence'' that if Gorsuch's ``egregious views were to become law, Americans' lives . . . would be put at risk in untold ways.'' I am happy to report that a year into Justice Gorsuch's tenure on the Supreme Court, Americans seem to be doing OK. Fast-forward to Judge Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination, and once again, Democrats are predicting that the sky will fall if a Republican President's Supreme Court nominee is confirmed. Faced with an eminently well-qualified, mainstream nominee, they have been forced to resort to distortions or outright conspiracy theories to make their case. Their statements have been so extreme that they have already been called out more than once by the mainstream media.…
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John Thune
Republican · South Dakota

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