Had a few tens of thousands of voters in the Rust Belt stayed home, or Hillary Clinton been a marginally more competent or honest candidate, we might now be watching the confirmation hearings for her second Supreme Court nominee. How would the right react to that situation? In particular, how would the Trumpier, “He FIGHTS!” faction of the GOP react? What would be said of McConnell if he reverted to a business-as-usual approach to Clinton’s judicial nominations?
At the hearings for Clinton’s second justice, if an Operation Rescue-style group of pro-life activists showed up to wave posters of fetal sonograms, how would the right respond? Would they condemn such a group, or would they suggest such stunts were unhelpful, while expressing sympathy to their general position given the moral gravity of the issue at stake? The answers to these questions seem fairly obvious.
In theory, the composition of the Supreme Court should not matter that much. Thanks mostly to the Warren and Burger Supreme Courts, it matters a great deal. Are the Senate Democrats and leftist activists being overly dramatic? Of course.
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