Appointment process

Question 1

Who did trump 2020 say he would only appoint

Answer 1

members of the Federalist society to the supreme court

(unduly politicised)

Question 2

Who did biden say he would only appoint

Answer 2

black women for the supreme court

(unduly politicised)

HOWEVER
diversity over an unrealistic idea of neutrality
Supreme court only has 2 black people and only 4 women

Question 3

Why is the senate hearing politicised?

Answer 3

Political-point scoring
High scrutiny

Question 4

Why is the high levels of scrutiny good in the senate hearing?

Answer 4

The intense environment tests their patience and their calmness of judges

Allows confrontations and exposure

Question 5

Examples of the senate hearing failing with Clarence Thomas

Answer 5

Anita Hill SA in the workplace allegations, but he is now on the supreme court

Question 6

Examples of the senate hearing failing with Kavanaugh

Answer 6

(Trump nominee) not enough time to look at the documents and had SA allegations
Kamala harris questioned his honesty throughout the trial
He is now on the supreme court, it was close
Failure to adequately deal with SA allegations

Question 7

Example of the senate hearing exposing poor candidates?

Answer 7

Lindsey Graham interrogated judge (jackson) on child pornography

Question 8

Why is the senate full vote flawed

Answer 8

based on party line voting

Question 9

Examples of senators voting against their party nominee

Answer 9

Robert Bork

No support from the senate judicial committee and was not appointed with a 42-58 vote against him
Democratic senate majority but 6 republicans voted against him because he was too extreme in his views

Question 10

Who voted against kavanaugh from the same republican party

Answer 10

Murkowski against Kavanaugh

Question 11

Kavanaugh example of senate party line voting

Answer 11

Despite the SA allegations, 50-48, with all but one Republican senator voting for him

Same happened for him with the judicial committee where it was 11-10 supporting him from the republicans

Question 12

ACB senate hearing politicsed

Answer 12

Amy Coney Barret, all but one republican voter voting for her
The republicans confirmed a nominee from their own party

Question 13

What does the removal of the filibuster mean?

Answer 13

The president can get their appointments through without bipartisan support