{"id":3835,"date":"2020-11-16T12:43:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T12:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2020-11-16T12:43:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T12:43:52","slug":"amy-coney-barretts-confirmation-hearings-were-a-master-class-in-political-posturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3835","title":{"rendered":"Amy Coney Barrett&#8217;s Confirmation Hearings Were a Master Class in Political Posturing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;After a week of hearings, it&#8217;s very unlikely that the public understands Barrett better now than they did on Monday, considering that the committee spent more time posturing than probing the judge&#8217;s judicial philosophy. Grandstanding may be an effective political strategy, but it didn&#8217;t tell us anything useful or significant about Barrett, and it won&#8217;t affect the outcome of her confirmation vote.&#8221;&nbsp;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/10\/15\/amy-coney-barretts-confirmation-hearings-supreme-court-judicial-philosophy-political-posturing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/10\/15\/amy-coney-barretts-confirmation-hearings-supreme-court-judicial-philosophy-political-posturing\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;After a week of hearings, it&#8217;s very unlikely that the public understands Barrett better now than they did on Monday, considering that the committee spent more time posturing than probing the judge&#8217;s judicial philosophy. Grandstanding may be an effective political strategy, but it didn&#8217;t tell us anything useful or significant about Barrett, and it won&#8217;t affect the outcome of her confirmation vote.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1015,865,528],"class_list":["post-3835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-amy-coney-barrett","tag-senate","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3836,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}