"The United States Senate should reject the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court," NCR states in our editorial posted today.
Four years ago, when Justice Antonin Scalia died in February, nine months before the general election, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to hold hearings for the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland. Yet, this year, after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg less than nine weeks before Election Day, McConnell has rammed through this nomination.
"The hypocrisy is rank," we write, "and it is impossible to see how rushing this nomination will be good for our democracy. The enmity caused by the Republicans' shameful double standard will not soon dissipate, not when lifetime appointments are at stake."
Although Barrett is not responsible for the decision, she has allowed herself to become part of the process.
"Her willingness to become a collaborator, complete with the required adoring look at the president at the super-spreader event at which she was nominated, is not enough to justify a negative vote, but it set the table," we write.
"What disqualifies Barrett is the extreme moral relativism she displayed in her confirmation hearing. Not so long ago, moral relativism was the war cry of cultural conservatives, at least since then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger enounced the 'dictatorship of relativism' at the last Mass before the cardinals entered the conclave of 2005 from which Ratzinger emerged as Pope Benedict XVI."
