OPINION — In the United States, we rely on fair and independent judges to protect our rights and freedom. They are central to the system of checks and balances we all learned about in school.
But there’s a disturbing new trend: President Donald Trump’s nominees to be federal judges are going out of their way to demonstrate unquestioning loyalty to him. They’re refusing to acknowledge basic facts that contradict his dangerous and self-serving fictions.
This is happening in the U.S. Senate, where the Judiciary Committee holds hearings on every judicial nominee. From the beginning of Trump’s second term, nominees have been asked a simple question: Who won the 2020 election?
