Biden's history on Senate Judiciary Committee could come back to haunt him

[Counselor706]

When President Joe Biden selects a nominee for the Supreme Court, he'll be returning to a process he grew deeply familiar with during a nearly two-decade run leading Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

As committee chairman from 1987 to 1995, and ranking member from 1981 to 1987 and again from 1995 to 1997, Biden presided over some of the most notorious confirmation hearings of the era, a fate he'll hope to avoid when selecting what he's promised will be the court's first black woman.

Given today's polarized politics, the president's nominee may face a drawn-out drama-filled confirmation no matter what he does. Ron Bonjean, a Republican strategist who advised Neil Gorsuch during his 2017 nomination, expects plenty of pushback.

"The confirmation process has turned into a political campaign where either side is trying to define the nominee," he told NBC News. "With the toxic environment that we're currently living in, it’s hard to see how this would be a peaceful process."

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[pecksniff]

Hard to see how "come back to haunt him" applies here. The process would be just as acrimonious no matter who were president.

 

[KeithD]

Just more vicious distracting disinformation. Once he's made a choice, and it would be a surprise now if it wasn't one of two who are being fully discussed and who no one can say aren't more qualified than the last two picks were, the attention is going to the current appointments. Only Swiftboaters will try to make anything out of Biden's past. If the nominee is Childs, it's probably over but ineffectual backbiting like this thread posting. Two Republicans have said they will vote for Childs. They probably aren't the only ones. That's all that's needed. It's like replacing like. The Republicans can only further reveal themselves as greedy little gnomes to put up a big fight on this one.

 

[pecksniff]

It's like replacing like.

We can only hope Roberts, Thomas or Alito will go sometime before the midterms.