My dad used to say that it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt. I should have heeded that advice more often growing up, and some groups opposing Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court would do better to heed that advice now.

The group Demand Justice, for example, has an unusual demand. In their latest email blast, they demand that Senate Democrats show that they “take the Constitution seriously” by “boycott[ing] Kavanaugh’s hearings.”