Left: Joe Biden, Friday, June 4, 2021, at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz) Right: Mitch Mcconnell on the Colonnade of the White House, Nov. 7, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Republican Senate leadership has an opportunity to show that it is more than just a rubber-stamp opposition for Democrats. Will Mitch McConnell take the base for granted once again by meekly allowing a partisan judge to be confirmed as America’s next justice of the Supreme Court? Or will they fight, even a losing battle, to expose what Joe Biden is doing to America? At American Greatness, Paul Gottfried suggests that it’s payback time, and that the GOP should fight tooth and nail against any partisan judges Biden may nominate. He writes (abridged):
According to, among other sources, Politico and the Federalist Society, Senate Republicans are not exactly bracing for a “bare knuckle” fight over Biden’s nominee to replace liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
Whoever that nominee will be, that replacement supposedly will not change the balance of forces on the court between liberal activists and their opponents.
The likely appointee right now is Ketanji Brown Jackson, who sits on the D.C. Court of Appeals and who was raised to that post with bipartisan support in 2021.
The fact that Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and two other Republican senators voted for this appointee for the federal bench has allowed the leftist press to describe her as a thoughtful moderate.
Of course, Brown-Jackson is no centrist, unless we make that term highly elastic.
While a judge on the D.C. district court, she tried to block Trump’s attempts to control illegal border crossings; and on the federal bench, she has faithfully supported the congressional January 6 Committee, particularly its efforts to force Donald Trump to hand over White House records that he treated as confidential.
Unless Senate Republicans strongly resist the confirmation of Biden’s nominee, they will be substantiating the view of those of us on the Right who see their leadership and many in their ranks as spineless. While Democrats happily serve their leftist base, Republicans take theirs for granted, while reaching out for votes on the Left that are almost always beyond reach.
I would expect Senators Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and possibly Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to raise cutting questions at the confirmation hearings, but if Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other party leaders have their way, an attempt will be made to avoid harsh exchanges. The conservative voting base be damned!
Paul Edward Gottfried is the editor of Chronicles. An American paleoconservative philosopher, historian, and columnist, Gottfried is a former Horace Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, as well as a Guggenheim recipient.
If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for my free weekly email.
