NICOLE RUSSELL: Democrats will burn down the Supreme Court if they can’t have it | Human Events

While Americans are most likely consumed with holiday festivities or struggling with the current economy, Democrats are trying to ram through several judicial nominees and investigate the Supreme Court, to protests of Republican lawmakers.

During a Thursday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Chairman Dick Durbin (D- Ill.) ignored, even violated, longstanding procedure because they were trying to fast track subpoenas for Republican donor Harlan Crow and activist Leonard Leo, arguing they have influenced Supreme Court Justices with gifts and donations. On top of that, he didn’t let Republican committee members speak up about judicial nominations they wanted to object to.

Before the vote to subpoena, The Hill reports that “Republican members of the committee stormed out of the hearing room in the Hart building.” No Republicans voted on the motion that passed. Durbin went on with the vote “to prevent Republicans from delaying it until next week by invoking a rule to limit committee meetings to two hours.”

Even though Democrats approved the subpoenas without…