Once you've decided to vote no, a hearing is pointless. Hearings are not for the nominee, they're for the Senators.https://twitter.com/kkondik/status/1144651071819800576 …
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Um, no. They are to put things on the record, including testimony, for the public, no matter how the vote goes. Saying that hearings "are for the Senators" is fundamentally wrong. We're an open society. Hearings exist for the sake of the public, and the record.
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That's a fairly recent view of the Senate. No SCOTUS nominee appeared for a hearing until Brandeis. As recently as the 1940s, nominees were confirmed without a hearing. And most of them just duck any question that matters anyway.
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It was to convince Senators in was OK to vote for a Jew. No, seriously. Brandeis.
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