I KNOW RIGHT. They are being more thorough in their background checks for random people who want to live here (and, lbr, often work in really demanding/unpleasant/grueling jobs for minimal pay and limited access if any to social services or any kind of worker protections) than they are FOR A JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT WHAT IN THE NAME OF ALL THINGS REASONABLE IS THIS NONSENSE.

MAZIE HIRONO!!!! LIONESS OF THE SENATE, WE HEAR YOU ROAR! (Seriously, I remember right after McCain's death people were talking about how "the last lion of the Senate is gone" and now with Sen. Hirono, I am just like, "The lions are dead... LONG LIVE THE LIONESS!"