justices have surprised the presidents who named them once they got onto the court and turned out not to vote the way they were specced. think of suit earn stevens. but that seems highly unlikely, less likely in kavanaugh s case than any justice who has come to the court in that 15-year period that we had a middle. there is no more middle now. shannon, i wonder if in your reporting when you talk to republicans who probably feel very good tonight whether or not they feel that will settling even deep near that binary where the republican party is the party essentially of white americans or conservative and the democrat are the party of the people of color, minorities, immigrants, lgbt, everyone else who doesn t follow under the rubric donald trump says he s out there working for. whether or not settlinging intoing that and dragging the court further into it long-termite be a problem for the republican party. or are they thinking we re driving forward, we own the court, it doesn t matte