From b17ad615a13d4610ae1cf29144145e8793c1796c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jbrockmendel <jbrockmendel@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 19:20:05 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] CLN: remove unreachable branch

---
 pandas/core/indexes/base.py | 11 ++---------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/indexes/base.py b/pandas/core/indexes/base.py
index ceb3f26a0526a..00e662fae4991 100644
--- a/pandas/core/indexes/base.py
+++ b/pandas/core/indexes/base.py
@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
     is_categorical,
     is_categorical_dtype,
     is_datetime64_any_dtype,
-    is_datetime64tz_dtype,
     is_dtype_equal,
     is_extension_array_dtype,
     is_float,
@@ -2525,14 +2524,8 @@ def _union(self, other, sort):
             return other._get_reconciled_name_object(self)
 
         # TODO(EA): setops-refactor, clean all this up
-        if is_datetime64tz_dtype(self):
-            lvals = self._ndarray_values
-        else:
-            lvals = self._values
-        if is_datetime64tz_dtype(other):
-            rvals = other._ndarray_values
-        else:
-            rvals = other._values
+        lvals = self._values
+        rvals = other._values
 
         if sort is None and self.is_monotonic and other.is_monotonic:
             try: