How Bad Will Things Become? Part Five: The Five Supreme Court Reactionaries Defund the Government

by Neil H. BuchananAs I write this column, the Senate Judiciary Committee's emergency Kavanaugh hearing is either ongoing or is about to begin.  Although that hearing will certainly be important and could even change the course of history, it will also surely be stomach-turning in any number of ways.  I am, therefore, ignoring it as much as I can.I thus return here to writing about the stakes of the Republicans' ongoing effort to remake the Supreme Court by adding either Brett Kavanaugh or one of several Kavanaugh-equivalents as a fifth arch-conservative vote.I cannot, however, resist adding that Republicans are once again missing what seems like a promising opportunity to make lemonade out of lemons.  If they merely go through the motions with today's hearings but then immediately "plow through" with scheduled votes by the committee (tomorrow morning) and soon thereafter in the full Senate, not only will they be damaging themselves…

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