Jeremy Paris, the executive director of the Committee for a Fair Judiciary and a principal at The Raben Group, was chief counsel for Nominations and Oversight of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 2008-2013. Given that several Republican senators met with the nominee , some in person and without masks , moving forward with the hearing isn't just misguided -- it's reckless. Respect for democracy and for the legacy of RBG, which Barrett has been apparently hand-picked to undermine, demands one. Republican senators refused to consider former President Barack Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick Garland after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016. It would take just a handful of Republican senators to stop this farce by refusing to take up a vote.

Source: CNN October 09, 2020 21:10 UTC