By Newt Gingrich

I am really looking forward to the Inner Circle live event that we're going to have on Wednesday with the debate Tuesday night, with everything going on with the Supreme court position, and other things happening around the world. This is a very exciting time for me to have a chance to answer questions, to give you my sense of what's going on, and at the same time to get from you the things that most concern you, your observations, your ideas, your advice. 

By Newt Gingrich

President Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett creates a real dilemma for the Democrats.

Since President Ronald Reagan nominated Judge Robert Bork to replace Justice Lewis Powell on the Supreme Court in 1987, the Democrats have followed a policy of harshness and ruthlessness in going after Republican Supreme Court nominees.

The assault on Bork – a scholarly and widely respected conservative member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit – was so vicious and underhanded that the process of personal destruction came to be known as “borking.” In fact, the savaging of Judge Bork was so infamous the Oxford English Dictionary added the verb “bork” as US political slang: “[To] obstruct (someone, especially a candidate for public office) by systematically defaming or vilifying them.”

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee while Bork was being slandered was Joe Biden. A report was issued known as the Biden Report, and Bork later said every word in it was false.

The assault on Judge Brett Kavanaugh was in Biden’s Bork tradition of scandalous charges, hearsay, witnesses who made up falsehoods, hysteria in the liberal media, intense hostility among liberal activists, and hostile bullying questions during the nomination hearings.

Now, with the nomination of Judge Barrett, the Democrats face a real dilemma. Judge Barrett is incredibly smart, has an impressive career, and is well-known as a caring, compassionate person.