Hmmm...

People can and will have a range of opinions on the suitability of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to serve as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, a position for which President Trump nominated her today. I've read several of them over the course of the evening.

Among the responses are those of Democratic United States Senators Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut) and Mazie Hirono (Hawaii). It's more or less common practice for a nominee to meet with different senators in the days leading up to committee hearings, especially members of the judiciary committee who conduct the hearings. But because they believe that President Trump should not nominate a replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg so close to an election, and because they believe that the Senate should not take up such a nomination, Senators Blumenthal and Hirono said they would not meet with Judge Barrett before the hearings. Getting to skip out on having to spend time as a captive audience to Richard Blumenthal and Mazie Hirono? Judge Barrett's already ahead of the game.

Although Michael Avenatti -- the disgraced and suspended lawyer who promoted Julie Swetnick's claims that previous Trump nominee Brett Kavanaugh was a part of a gang of high school boys who drugged girls or got them drunk at parties so they had difficulty refusing sex -- is out of jail on a protection-from-COVID release, so perhaps the senators are skipping the meetings in order to get the band back together.