Polling on Kavanaugh matters because SCOTUS' legitimacy matters. School segregation, gay marriage, Bush v. Gore--the buck stops there. Many bad ideas (court packing) gain when SCOTUS loses legitimacy. If partisans stepped back from your endless short-term fights, you'd see that.
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The possibility that keeps crossing my mind is Kennedy didn't want to retire but the pressure to get another "win" before mid-terms with a young conservative judge was great, and nominating Kavanaugh and Kavanaugh alone was the only way to convince him to step down.
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I mean, I hope that we're not at that stage where we're dicking with lifetime appointments for political points
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