She's his personal lawyer.
Therefore, not being a judge, the Senate has no recollection of her views on important issues and how she would work as a Supreme Court Justice. Being a Supreme Court Justice isn't a lot about knowledge of the law, but interpreting the law since our Constitution was written so blandly. The Supreme Court is supposed to be able to grill this out of the possible justice in a 4 day hearing where they ask them questions, but nowadays, the people just get asked questions by the Senate and say "I don't feel it's appropriate to address that issue at this time.", or other complete bs answers. The guy who just got put on the Supreme Court did the exact same thing with Senate, but he was a judge and they could use his past decisions as a factor in how he viewed issues.
That said, it's going to be very interesting to see if Senate will pass her. I don't see how they could, but the Republican party in Congress has always been fairly strong in following Bush.
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