So I’ve tweeted some about Kavanaugh and evidentiary standards and how sure we have to be someone committed a very bad act to reject his nomination. But I haven’t really given my thoughts. Here they are.
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I think people are thinking about this through a frame of whether Kavanaugh deserves to be punished. But that’s a mistake. It’s more a prudential question.
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Exactly. It's not a criminal trial. It's not even a civil trial. The question before us is whether the country would be better off elevating Kavanaugh to the court rather than a different conservative.
By that standard, I say no.
(full argument here
)https://arcdigital.media/everyones-applying-the-wrong-standard-to-kavanaugh-s-nomination-9b5859209039?source=friends_link&sk=4973bf2f07aec042d2ede336c92a5dca …
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