Lindsey Graham Said the Tyrannical Part Out Loud

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What a week!

So Ruth Bader Ginsburg died, Senate Republicans pulled the about-face that we all knew they would about confirmation hearings at the end of a president’s term, the American death toll from the coronavirus hit 200,000, riots against police brutality continued in numerous U.S. cities, Kentucky prosecutors filed a low-level felony charge against the police officer who fired and missed, but didn’t charge the officers who shot and killed Breonna Taylor, the Trump administration threatened to pull federal funds from liberal bastions, like Portland and New York City, because they were “anarchistic,” and then the president refused to commit to a “peaceful transfer of power” after the election.

With so much going on, you may have missed the first real murmurings of tyranny in America from a member of the Republican Party whose name does not begin with “T” and end with “rump.”

We Really Expected Nothing Less from Lindsey Graham

It came in a troubling, but thoroughly expected, letter from Lindsey Graham (signature: Jim Tahoe), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was addressed to the Democrats on the Committee. In it, he told Committee Democrats that a Supreme Court nomination would receive a confirmation hearing, their misgivings be…