This is the price that principled Republicans are paying for judges.https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1040217897703026689 …
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Given close margin, they could exert this leverage anywhere. Wouldn't need to threaten something they value.
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They’d need to threaten something
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Judicial nominations are his greatest achievement, so I think he values that, in part as it did keep GOP dissenters off his back in any meaningful way
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If R Senators blocked SCOTUS nominees, I’d blame them, not Trump. I’d blame Trump for the million other things he’s responsible for.
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They wouldn’t necessarily have needed to block, just get on their senate-issued high horses and make a noise that was tied to something tangible. Gorsuch was nominated, what, four days, after the first travel ban?
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Isn’t this the means to exerting leverage?
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It's a simple calculus: the ability to shift the courts for a generation is worth putting up with the rest. They probably can't do much to stop the latter, so they'll take the former and hold their nose.
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