We have written before with our suggestion that politicians who are lawyers would be well-advised to act more like lawyers and less like politicians. Recent events have given us no reason to change that opinion, as certain as we are that some will continue to ignore it.

Tom Cotton, a senator from Arkansas who went to law school at Harvard, chose not to support the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. That was his right.

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