perhaps, but if strategic it strikes me as a strategy with a real risk of backfiring. And it sure looks like DT isn’t happy.
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Replying to @danepps @rickhasen
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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Replying to @danepps @rickhasen
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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Replying to @danepps @rickhasen
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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very little is left to chance in confirmation battles these days.
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