The Ginsburg Precedent

(H/T to The Baseball Crank)

How did the Senate treat uber-liberal Supreme Court Nominee Ruth Bader Ginsburg? It is how nominees should be treated as chronicled at Red State.org.

GINSBURG CONFIRMATION HEARING
Ginsburg’s hearing lasted a total of 4 days.
Only one panel of witnesses was permitted to testify against Ginsburg at the hearing.
Chairman Joseph Biden established a new practice, effective for “all Supreme Court nominees,” that the Senate Judiciary Committee would review the nominee’s FBI file only in confidential, closed session. Chairman Joseph Biden, Ginsburg Hrg. 116 (July 20, 1993). The Committee would also question the nominee about the file in confidential session, no matter how “serious” the subject. Chairman Joseph Biden, Ginsburg Hrg. 369 (July 23, 1993).
Ginsburg was not required to discuss her legal views on a host of issues, including
Abortion
Civil rights laws
Gay rights
Gun-owners rights
Rights of the disabled
School vouchers
Separation of church and state
Free speech
Rights of Indian tribes
Ginsburg was not required to discuss her personal views on issues such as the death penalty.
The fact that Ginsburg had made controversial ideological statements in speeches and law review articles was not considered a disqualifier. For example, before her nomination to the Supreme Court, Ginsburg had argued
there may be a constitutional right to prostitution
the age of sexual consent should be lowered to 12
for an to end single-sex prisons to prepare male prisoners to return to a community in which men and women function as equal partners
Even Senators who strongly disagreed with Justice Ginsburg’s personal political views voted for her confirmation.
Even those Senators who eventually voted against Justice Ginsburg’s confirmation treated her, and spoke of her, with respect.

I have a prediction, though. The Democrats are a do-as-we-say-not-as-we-do bunch. I predict that Roberts does not get that standard of treatment.