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Wednesday’s 12-hour Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh brought with it some substantive discussions for once. Senators peppered the candidate with hypothetical questions about how he would rule in certain situations. Kavanaugh being a studied judicial mind, he avoided giving his opinion because that was how Democrats sunk the nomination of Robert Bork. But ABC correspondent Terry Moran was not having any of it and acted like it wasn’t normal.
Moran was no rookie, because as anchor David Muir noted on World News Tonight, “Terry Moran has covered the court for years for us”. But despite that expertise, Moran never mentioned that it was standard practice for nominees to avoid answering hypotheticals. Don’t just take my word for it, CBS legal correspondent Jan Crawford noted it on Evening News:
JAN CRAWFORD: Throughout the day, Kavanaugh fielded questions on the major issues, from abortion rights to presidential pardons. But taking a page from the playbook of past nominees he refused to speculate on how he would rule in future cases.
But that fact didn’t stop Moran from huffing about Kavanaugh’s adherence to precedent.
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