Josh Hawley did his homework; now it’s time to confirm Neomi Rao

Published February 28, 2019 12:20pm ET



The successor to now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s D.C. Circuit seat was always doomed for a chaotic confirmation process, but Democrats and Republicans alike put Neomi Rao through a ringer not seen since, well, the confirmation hearings of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., came within a hair of putting Rao through a religious test, demanding to know the personal feelings of the OMB administrator on same-sex marriage. Leftists have lambasted Rao, a woman of color, as “hostile” to women of color. Fellow 2020 wannabee Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., obsessed over the minutiae of her teenage newspaper writings at Yale University and refused to accept that Rao, now one of the nation’s top legal minds, has accepted the legal consensus of the definition of consent and understands that intoxicated women bear no legal or moral responsibility if they become the victims of sexual assault.

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