This makes no sense to me. If this is White House strategy, they would have been smart enough to avoid the bad Trump comments in 1st place.https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/829693728923086848 …
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smartest course would have been to demur. He was going to be confirmed; didn’t need to do this. Little to gain, lots to lose.
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what doesn’t make sense to me: w/ this strategy, all risks borne by NMG but all benefits redound to Senate Rs, not him
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what does he have to gain personally from going along with this, even if Rs see benefit in more votes in favor?
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how can any self-respecting judge who must make public statements (as he now must at confirmation) say NOTHING about Trump?
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very easy to say your role as a judge (which he currently is) doesn’t permit you to make statements about political actors
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not in this environment. and he probably WANTS to say something
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right, but that’s quite different from saying this is a canny strategy in which he’s reciting lines scripted by White House.
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that’s what’s more plausible to me—he really believes this and felt important to say, and misjudged (or disregarded) risks.
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just like J. Sotomayor said what she had to say, so is J. Gorsuch
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