RIP Antonin Scalia

The Democrats are playing the long game here. The 2040 equivalent of Mitch McConnell won't be laughing when liberal interpretations rain down in 1-0 decisions with Chief Justice Kagan writing for the majority.

 

Geez. Can't a guy be polite around here?

 

I can't imagine there's a chance in hell he nominates a Republican governor, even if he is pro-choice:

 

Obama's playing Jedi mind tricks with the Republicans. As soon as they announce they won't hold hearings, he floats a nominee that's a Republican, so that they're stuck with either refusing to hold hearings for him, or look like flip-floppers.

 

Vet Mitch McConnell so you can say:

"Go obstruct yourself, Mitch!"

 

Who's, Baron. Who's.

 

Sandoval would bring a lot of positive qualities that the court is missing. There is a need for at least one justice with political experience. The court desperately needs geographic diversity. And the Harvard-Yale cabal finally gets broken.

As a moderate he should be far more palatable to the GOP than many of the people Obama could put forward, or that a President Clinton or President Sanders would put forward.

He is Catholic though, so the outsized influence of papists would continue.

 

It would really prove that it's all about abortion, isn't it, if they actually nominated him?

 

I think that's a good point, but the pro-choice position gives them cover. That's their primary litmus test.

 

Someone is playing tricks on Wikipedia.

"Brian Edward Sandoval (/ˈsændəˌvɔːl/ born August 5, 1963) is the 29th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada[1] and a member of the Republican Party and is also the infamous Zodiac Killer. Sandoval is a former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada. On June 9, 2010, Sandoval defeated his GOP challengers (including the then-incumbent governor Jim Gibbons) to win the Republican nomination for the 2010 gubernatorial election."

 

Sorry, but that is just an excuse to do the wrong thing. If it is objectively wrong, previous actions by the other side do not change the fact that it is wrong.

 

Not really, given how far to the right Obama has to go to get the Republicans to even consider a candidate.