president. well, mcconnell, the bible might call it wickedness in high places, aka evil. what he s also doing is daunting democrats, daring them to do something, anything. let s be honest, so far democrats have not done a thing to punish his rotten behavior. let s not forget in 2016 when mcconnell refused to even schedule a hearing for merrick garland. once he was elected, mcconnell blew up the filibuster rule to confirm federalist judge neal gorsuch, calling that the crowning jewel of his time as majority leader. i do think the issue that you raise is the single-most consequential thing that i ve done in my time as majority leader of the senate, i preserved the scalia vacationancy for the gorsuch
presidential power. so jamiel, to brett kavanaugh, you have those senators, republican senators, who have expressed concern about him to the white house. some thinking that the dissents he wrote on key cases, including one texas abortion case, didn t go far enough. there s concern that the administration can t go through all the paperwork from his time in the bush white house ahead of 9:00 p.m. tonight. but you do have him as reportedly a favorite of white house council don mcgahn. and on the flip side of that, you have senator majority leader mitch mcconnell, who was so key in the gorsuch appointment, saying hardiman or kethledge would be a safer pick for the president in terms of getting him confirmed. what s your read? the president hardly goes with the safe move on almost any issue. it wouldn t surprise me if he went with brett. he s a solid conservative candidate. this idea that brett is not conservative enough, totally false. he s right within the mainstream, as of all four o
jill wine-banks i know you have argued cases to the supreme court. i want to get your reaction to what it will mean to practitioners as a legal practitioner who have this kennedy seat filled by let s just say another version of neil gorsuch? i think the different between the gorsuch appointment which was replacing a conservative with a conservative, is this is replacing a person who actually listened to arguments on both sides and who was a centrist in a way, not as much of a centrist as he is known as because he s done a lot of decisions that i would consider to be bad, hobby lobby, gore versus bush, many others, some of the gerrymandering cases, some of the voting rights cases, but he was more of a person who was known at least as a decisive factor in the 5-4 decisions. so it s much more important that the democrats stand up and be
i think the different between the gorsuch appointment which was replacing a conservative with a conservative, is this is replacing a person who actually listened to arguments on both sides and who was a centrist in a way, not as much of a centrist as he is known as because he s done a lot of decisions that i would consider to be bad, hobby lobby, gore versus bush, many others, some of the gerrymandering cases, some of the voting rights cases, but he was more of a person who was known at least as a decisive factor in the 5-4 decisions. so it s much more important that the democrats stand up and be strong and that some republicans join in and say that we need to have someone who will listen to the arguments, as a practitioner we want to have an open-minded judge, who will listen to the arguments put forth and will make a sound decision on it.
party as in congress do you think that s make or break? so the setup there being that basically the last big legislative achievement and the domestic policy version of the gorsuch appointment, which is like the thing that all of us normal conservative and republicans want to see, tax, tax, tax, if that doesn t happen i think it s different from health care in that if you don t do tax reform today, you can do it tomorrow. they had to move on from health care because the bill was so unpopular and so politically damage to even talk about that they had to move on from it to try to get to something that they thought was more plausible and a lot of them were more interested in in the first place. i think they ll continue to hold out hope they ll eventually pass something. and the other thing to keep them from breaking out into total warfare, it s a disaster in the midterm. if you have them angry with each other, normal republicans who are furious with the president and trump supporte