The Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is good news for Donald Trump and Senate Republicans. As I’ve written before, marginal Republican voters care more about the courts than marginal Democratic voters do. And hearings should be good news for Republicans as well, as Judge Barrett gets to make her case before the cameras, and Democrats are already worried that their senators and activists may come off yet again as mean-spirited extremists who cannot conceal their disdain for faithful Catholicism.
But the nomination is here now, and Democrats cannot stop the hearings from going forward. Absent a major surprise, they likely can neither delay a vote nor prevent Barrett from being confirmed. What is a Biden supporter to do?
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