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Stop twisting college writings to attack qualified nominees

By Quin Hillyer

Published January 14, 2019 10:05pm ET

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Stop twisting college writings to attack qualified nominees — Neomi Rao, Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, smiles as President Donald Trump announces his intention to nominate her to fill Brett Kavanaugh's seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, during a Diwali ceremonial lighting of the Diya in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, in Washington. | (Evan Vucci/AP)

With yet another judicial nominee under fire for allegedly objectionable collegiate writings, it’s long past time to say that almost nothing one writes in college has serious bearing on a nominee’s fitness for office.

This is especially true when the writings themselves are objectionable only if taken outlandishly out of context by dishonest ideologues or by souls too pathetically hypersensitive to appreciate the virtues of intellectual jousting.

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