It's difficult to go against a president's nominee. |
They did it with Robert Bork, because his paper record was so horrible. Bork didn't believe the First Amendment applied to anything except political speech. He didn't believe there was a right to privacy in the Constitution. His writings, his law review articles, were so out of the mainstream in any real sense that he was an easy target. |
What happened here, and it's to her advantage, is that she complained and they did an investigation and then they fired her. Even if she loses the harassment claim, juries tend to be very sympathetic about retaliation. |