RFK Jr.’s “Confirmation Hearing” - A Broken Process

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s HHS confirmation hearing perfectly illustrates how a crucial vetting process has devolved into little more than political theater, rather than substantive debate.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent Senate “confirmation hearing” for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) was yet another installment in the ongoing reality show that our nation’s critical nomination process has become. What should be a serious inquiry into a nominee’s qualifications and ideas has dissolved into grandstanding, gotcha questions, and …