Hillary supporters and the DNC cited the "Supreme Court" and other areas in their justification to steamroll forward and ignore Liberals and Independents.
I don't remember Hillary-ites/DNC saying much about the Supreme Court at all, though I was SCREAMING it at the time, as I saw precisely this thing coming without (of course) a clue which new Justices would be the game-changers. The Republicans took the Supreme Court very seriously in their campaigns, while for the Democrats the Supreme Court was the big elephant in the room that nobody talked about.
Canadians knew much more how important it was than most USAns did, and despite their having an entirely different structure of political system than we do.
Not the Salem Witch Trials here, folks. Merely making an accusation and not providing any proof should not kill someone's career.
Maybe not, but when you're voting on somebody tantamount to electing The Pope, any such allegations should at least be looked at SERIOUSLY AND THOROUGHLY, not in such a rush-to-NONjudgment (because the fix was set) as happened this time.
If a thorough investigation was done and it came out in Kavanaugh's favor, he would have still been voted in, but the taint would be much less. But, there would still be taint that he will obviously pre-judge cases that come before him, to align precisely with the rightest-wing parts of the Republican agenda, and a Justice is NOT supposed to be that way. They're supposed to be impartial and neutral.
This isn't unprecedented at all, the non-neutrality part. Nearly my entire lifetime, I've been able to reliably predict how at least seven of the Justices would vote on nearly all high profile cases. (I do remember being "thrown way off" on the EMINENT DOMAIN case some years ago, but usually I could guess pretty well.) If all the Justices were truly neutral, there shouldn't have been much more than "chance guessing" at final Justice votes on most of the cases.
Ruth Ginsberg (spelling?) is as predictable as Clarence Thomas.
But, if he is truly innocent of those accusations, WHAT IS THE PROBLEM with having a full FBI investigation instead of a cursory and "fixed" one? If it was going to clear him anyway, he would (SHOULD?) have welcomed a full investigation. He was acting thoroughly like somebody who knows they're guilty, and an entire political party is his Protection racket!!
Oh, the Mafia/Cosa Nostra, people like Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel, etc., would be SO envious of the powers that now exist.