This is not the kind of leadership one expects from one of ours.

It's only April. The public's business continues to be thwarted by obstructionists in the US Senate. There are still more than 260 days left this year alone and even more before a new president enters the White House.

A lot can happen in that time. We need a full functioning branch of justice.

Why would any free-thinking senator who was so historically voted back into her senate seat several years ago by such a broad spectrum of support want to go along with her colleagues' tactic to hamstring the US Supreme Court and its important processes.

Further unnecessary delays on hearings for this US Supreme Court justice nominee not only denies us ordinary folks the justice we deserve. The putrid politicization of this US appointment by the Senate GOP leadership is also a huge government waste of time, energy, resources and money that we as a nation can ill afford.