Kavanaugh Insider Weighs In: 'Things Are Already Starting to Get Just as Crazy'
09-19-2020
Paul Strand
Benjamin Gill
Kavanaugh Insider Weighs In: 'Things Are Already Starting to Get Just as Crazy' | CBN News
Less than 24 hours after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the battle lines are already being drawn over her replacement.
With President Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate poised to seize the narrow window of time before Election Day, Democrats are vowing a fight, demanding that the seat be left vacant until after the election when they might have the chance to pick her replacement.
A top Senate Democrat, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA), is even vowing to take steps to pack the Supreme Court with extra liberal justices after the election if Democrats win the White House and the Senate. For the time being, the election has taken a dramatic shift and will now be heavily focused on the battle over the Supreme Court....
...Baker worked on the confirmations of both Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Does she think the confirmation process in the Senate for Ginsburg's replacement could turn out as fiery and wild as Kavanaugh's?
"Things are already starting to get just as crazy as Kavanaugh's if I'm able to gauge things correctly," she said. "But it seems that it is certainly going in that direction.
And I thought at the end of the Kavanaugh confirmation that certainly that was only kind of a test run for how crazy the next confirmation fight was going to be."...
...A major weapon used on Kavanaugh involved accusations – none were ever proven – that he had mistreated women in his younger years. Does Baker think a woman might face an easier time in the Senate confirmation process?
A Woman Won't Be Spared Harsh Treatment
"If it's a woman, just because it's a woman doesn't mean Democrats are going to handle the person with kid gloves," Baker insisted.
"It's going to be exactly the same. The accusations, the arguments against them are just going to be very different than they were with Kavanaugh obviously."
Baker pointed out that Democrats insist they are the party that does the most for women and minorities. But she then cited several times women and minority nominees for judgeships who were of a more conservative bent faced extremely harsh treatment at the hands of Democrats in the confirmation process.
"And that's one of the broader ironies of liberal judicial nomination politics is that it ends up hurting those they claim to protect," Baker said.
"And I think that's a really significant point here."