Dianne Feinstein’s Rank Illiberalism

Conservative Intel

Charles C. W. Cooke  "Perhaps that trendy phrase about democracy dying in darkness should be Senator Feinstein’s campaign slogan? 

'What Senator Feinstein is currently doing to Brett Kavanaugh is evil. Yes, it is evil. It is antediluvian. It is dangerous. It is illiberal. It sits well, well outside of the American tradition, harking back to a time in which the accused were simply carted off — or shunned by polite society — ten minutes after someone prominent offered up a vague claim about them. In America, we require that our accusers make themselves known, that their accusations be offered in detail and in public, and that the accused be apprised of everything that has been leveled against them — and we require this not just within formal legal environments, but in general. Within the American tradition, these requirements are considered a prerequisite to fairness — both inside and outside the courtroom. As has become fashionable lately within her party and her state, Senator Feinstein is stamping all over those traditions, and doing so for political advantage.

"Worse still, Senator Feinstein is engaged a brazen attempt to have it both ways: She wants the consequences of an accusation without any of the attendant process. Or, put more bluntly, Senator Feinstein wants to be imbued with the power to point her finger at other people and to mark them as tainted, as unacceptable, as excommunicated. That will not stand — today, tomorrow, ever."

Now Even Evidence of Brett Kavanaugh’s Good Character Is Used Against Him
. . . "But this response is downright temperate compared to the next wave. Now the fact that Kavanaugh coached girls’ basketball and hired so many female clerks is suspicious. No, really:

Brian Fallon

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And his emphasis on hiring women clerks.https://twitter.com/CahnEmily/status/1040618996171718659 …

Emily C. Singer

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Makes the whole "bring in the daughter's basketball team and talk about how great of a coach he was" look even more transparent

 So far, however, these claims don’t belong in the same category. So far, we are still watching a terrible and profoundly immoral political dirty trick. It’s yet another sign of our low times that all too many partisans are willing to pile on.