I would like to see (and participate in) a simulated confirmation hearing in which academics played the parts of the nominee and the Senators. Ideally, there would be at least two such simulations; one with a liberal jurist and conservative senators and one with a conservative jurist and liberal senators.Ideally, these would be broadcast during the actual confirmation process in order to help Americans understand the real debate and the real issues in contention. The absurdity of a nominee pretending that there really is such a thing as neutral jurisprudential philosophy and opposition senators struggling mightily to maintain the same fiction even as they seek to reveal the nominee's infidelity to same is almost too much to bear.
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