Just think about this for a minute:
Booker asked her whether it was constitutional for a president to pardon himself and she couldn’t say because it might come before the court. He asked her if a president should reveal that they have hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, possibly to foreign governments and she said she couldn’t talk about it because it’s before the courts. Earlier, she had refused to say whether a president could delay the election.
A s Booker noted, what’s astonishing about all this is that we are talking about it at all. In fact, it’s the most distressing line of questioning I heard all day. The contentious issues around health care and abortion and race are all very disturbing but they are familiar. We have been arguing over them for a long time, for better or worse.
This is new. And it is chilling.
By the way, not one Republican had a word to say about any of it. And that’s because they are Trump’s collaborators, accomplices and henchmen. They will be there for him if he pulls that trigger. And so will Justice Amy Coney Barrett.