Cory Booker is either playing dumb, or his United States History degree from Queen’s College, Oxford is about as meaningful as AOC’s Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.  On Ketanji Brown Jackson’s third day of Senate confirmation hearings, Cory Booker brought the nominee to tears with his over-the-top rhetoric and grandstanding.  In the process, Booker shows he don’t know much about the Supreme Court Senate confirmation history.  Prior to 1987, most Supreme Court Senate hearings were a relative dog-and-pony show with the President’s pick given a pro forma looksee before being confirmed.  I might be wrong, but Cory Booker almost certainly graduated high school in 1987 and given his Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, my guess is that he was no dummy.  Therefore, he was probably aware that the confirmation of Robert Bork was anything but cordial.  In fact, the failure to confirm Judge Bork led to the verb “bork” in modern dictionaries everywhere.  Ironically, from the Oxford Languages Dictionary, the definition of bork is: