Sanford: Alexander’s flip-flop on confirmation vote should surprise no one
Otis Sanford says no one should be surprised that Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, above, has made a 180-degree turn from what he said in 2016 about Supreme Court nominations. (Graeme Jennings/Pool via AP)
Otis Sanford
Otis Sanford is a political columnist, author and professor emeritus in Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Memphis.
No one should be surprised that Lamar Alexander flip-flopped on Supreme Court nominations. He has morphed over the last 40-plus years into a shameless political partisan, and is content to end his political career that way.
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