"Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett isn’t going to answer any of the big questions truthfully, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse knew that. So instead of inviting Barrett to be dishonest, Whitehouse explained the forces that put her in that Senate hearing room with the specific agenda—killing the Affordable Care Act, ending marriage equality, overturning Roe v. Wade—she is on the record as having (but is currently pretending not to have).
"Whitehouse described the Senate hearing room as being like a puppet
theater, with 'forces outside of this room who are pulling strings and
pushing sticks and causing the puppet theater to react.' Highlighting
the hypocrisy from Senate Republicans who claimed in 2016 that they
would oppose filling a Supreme Court seat in 2020 only to push to do
exactly that after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Whitehouse
said 'When you find hypocrisy in the daylight, look for power in the
shadows.' He then spent his time shining a light on the power in the
shadows—the right-wing dark money behind the Republican takeover of the
courts and the use of the courts to move U.S. policy ever to the right. -- Laura Clawson, on the first day of questioning Trump SCOTUS nominee Amy Coney Barrett. Videos of Sen. Whitehouse's comments are provided at the link above, in case you missed them. More reactions from Kos' writers to the "opaque, disingenuous, frightening" appearance by Coney Barrett are here.
