Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee had the perfect opportunity last week not to act like a bunch of Nazi jackals. They simply could not resist the opportunity to rail at a black woman federal judge with overwhelming credentials to be the next Supreme Court Justice (including her temperament and demeanor, the opposite of petulant, hissing Boof Kavanaugh’s). They had the chance to demonstrate that they still have the capacity to make decisions based on things other than partisan zealotry . They blew it.

