Remember when conservatives got upset with President Bush for nominating the unqualified Harriet Miers to SCOTUS, because that job was too important to hand to a mere loyalist?https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/us/politics/trump-ratcliffe-national-intelligence.html …
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Replying to @roddreher
That's because SCOTUS is the most powerful branch of government, with life tenure & no possibility of being overruled by the other branches.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @roddreher
These types of political appointments rarely last past the term office of the president who made them.
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Replying to @blcartwright @roddreher
Mind you, I don't want partisan hacks or unqualified cronies running these kinds of agencies, but none of them are remotely comparable to SCOTUS.
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