1.) She certainly said the things a Constitutionalist like me would want to hear with regard to that document. ("The adherence to the text is a constraint on my authority - trying to figure out what those words mean as they were intended by the people who wrote them.")
2.) A couple of things about her I'm-not-a-biologist response to the question about the definition of a woman: She pretty much had to answer in some such fashion, knowing that a firestorm from the let's-pretend-gender-is-a-construct crowd would be inevitable if she didn't. Still, it shows that she defers to that crowd - that is, she knows which side her bread is buttered on. The last three SCOTUS nominees certainly wouldn't have answered it that way.
3.) Senators Cruz and Graham utterly beclowned themselves. Cruz's stunt - waving Ibram X. Kendi's Antiracist Baby book around - and Graham storming out of the room were cringeworthy. Lines of questioning from Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley, while not descending to the level of the aforementioned, were opportunistic and gratuitous.
4.) Whataboutism that would bring up the truly shameful treatment of Gorsuch at his hearings (and it was shameful, as was subsequent remarking on how angry he got; this man had been the subject of the most rotten kind of slander - namely, that he'd sexually attacked women in his youth) only perpetuates our societal brittleness. It ensures that neither side truly hears the other across the chasm that divides us, rendering it utterly ineffective for - well, whatever it is intended to be effective for. It persuades no one of anything.
5.) Look, she's going to be confirmed and take a seat on the Supreme Court. Biden certainly wasn't going to nominate anyone to her right. She's well-regarded by no less a personage than Paul Ryan, and comes from a family that's distinguished itself in fields such as education, law enforcement and law. We could have been saddled with worse.
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