"Are we expected to believe that then-nominee Holder, with only a handful of Supreme Court briefs to his name, forgot about his role in one of this country's most publicized terrorism cases?" asked Senator Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona.
Back in 2005 the same pollster asked Americans the same question about Harriet Miers, George Bush's then-nominee whom everyone now agrees was an unqualified joke, and she pulled in 42% support to 43% opposition (even as Republican pundits turned against her).
Two other women also came forward with sexual misconduct allegations against the then-nominee for the high court.
In 2016, British rock band Queen denounced the Republican National Convention's use of their song "We Are the Champions" to introduce then-nominee Trump.
It's the Trump Party," said Colorado activist Kendal Unruh, who led an effort to dump then-nominee Donald Trump at the party convention in 2016.
Under oath, then-nominee Dr. Carson pledged to the Senate that he would protect HUD programs if confirmed as the next housing secretary.
And everyone, including Trump, is trying to avoid overtly shaming Ford the way Anita Hill, who accused then-nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his confirmation process in 1991, was shamed.
The Washington senator noted that the Senate Judiciary Committee allowed additional witnesses and an FBI investigation during the 1991 hearing focusing on Anita Hill's accusations of sexual harassment by then-nominee Clarence Thomas, who now sits on the Supreme Court.
This latest use of the "L -word is, of course, a caL -word to the Clarence Thomas hearisgs, where the then-nofinee to the Supreme courseinsisted sexual harassment allegations by former subordinate Anita Hill were a "high-tecallynching".
As soon as he came to the Senate in January 2011, he said he planned to block President Barack Obama's then-nominee for the seat, law professor Victoria Nourse, because he hadn't been consulted on her nomination.
