Last year, Senate Republicans played a dangerous game with the Supreme Court. This year, it seems to have paid off in more ways than one. They’re getting the pick they wanted — and they’re aggravating their liberal colleagues in the process.
When Antonin Scalia unexpectedly passed last year, the bench faced a predicament it had avoided for decades. For the first time in several administrations, the White House had the opportunity to upend the ideological balance of the nation’s highest court.
Or, they thought they did, anyway.
Republicans refused to hold hearings for Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland. Instead, they argued that the next president — whoever that may be — should be the one to fill the vacancy. The GOP leadership were betting that the polls were wrong and that Donald Trump would stage an incredible come-from-behind victory.
When he did, all eyes turned to Trump — whose conservative credentials were questioned by many mainstream Republicans for the duration of the campaign.
But if you need proof that Trump nominated a capable constitutionalist to the court, watch him take down California Senator Dianne Feinstein on the next page:
She’s just another DNC hack defending her plantation.
Feinstein better stick to dumb asses like her….Neil Gorsuch is sooooo much smarter then she is……is it’s a joke!
She asked him a question about prejudging a trial and it was obvious she did not want to hear anything that was different than her own prejudged attitude. She was very disrespectful rummaging thru papers and not looking at him while he was addressing her.
Its almost a cult like attitude.
She’s a criminal somewhere just not in the US……
Another liberal nitwit bites the dust.
They are both scumbags, but at least voters could hypothetically get rid of Feinstein.
The Dem don’t care if he is fair or not. Our President put him up so Dem are not going to vote for him!
Scalia “unexpectedly passed” followed by “Extremely suspicious” behavior from everyone withing 80000 feet – that “dangerous game” was infinitely necesary.
Old, old, OLD so-called news!