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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Certainly substantially higher than 50/50.
If I were on a board hiring a CEO, we'd likely apply a more onerous standard than one in ten. There is a large universe of capable people, and you don't play dice with your company.
As to reckless allegations, I'd wait to see if a problem emerges and we're suddenly short capable nominees. Since the question is what is best for the court and country, not what is best for the candidate, our standards should be very high.
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I think the CEO analogy works well.
My concern, and it's impossible to address, is how low do the allegations go? Are we going to see some redneck senator outing a future nominee for "being easy" in high school? "Senators, she gave my cousin Billy oral sex on the third date!" Some Sessions-like creep attacking a judge for smoking weed in college? The concern is never where the Democrats go with this stuff. It's where the Republicans, who will perfect the art of it, and nuclearize it, go with it.
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