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    Bill Press: Supreme Court hearing: Bring on the clowns!

    by Bill Press, Tribune Content Agency Mar 24, 2022 3 minutes

    Watching the confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court this week, I was overwhelmed with sadness. Not just at watching Republican senators launch such vicious, baseless, personal attacks on Judge Jackson. But at watching the ruins of what used to be a noble institution.

    The United States Senate is no longer “the world’s greatest deliberative body.” Today, Republicans under Mitch McConnell have turned it into nothing but a clown show. And not even a

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