Theyve already helped him make this pick and go through this process, but they are now going to get out there and work the roots for the votes, especially for the democratic votes he needs and the more conservative states out there. This is how you do a rollout. Whether you agree or disagree with something, and after the last few days, how can Something Like the travel ban be so rocky and so confusing where Government Agencies are not talking to each other, and they do this again. Whether you like the judge or not or a president from a marketing and branding standpoint. Thats perfect. This is the Dividing Line in the white house. The travel ban was ushered into being by Steven Miller and steve bannon who are disrupters by nature. They create this sort of environment of chaos as part of their governing philosophy, but the Supreme Court pick is a very conventional washington thing. This is a Reince Priebus operation. It was done by the book. It was contrary to what everybody thought it w
republican administration. he might serve as a check on, you know, a strong executive power, which could be very important for democrats. and conservatives are hoping. it s the opposite that he is a former clerk to anthony kennedy, who is the swing vote on the court, and you have the more conservative guy, who is very close to justice kennedy. maybe he pulls him the other way in the decisions. let s unpack what we heard from the president at the top of the show. he talked about he wanted a dignified process. again, the senate will decide whether judge gorsuch gets confirmed. i want to give him some props here. for ten months judge merrick garland was waiting for a confirmation hearing. the republicans refused to get him. the first call judge gorsuch made was to call judge garland. clearly trying to say, look, i m sorry. that not my doing. it s a club. the judges are a club just like the congress and the senate. the last part, let mitch go nuclear if he wants. that s the president d
long-attorney general view. if they do not filibuster this and if mitch mcconnell doesn t have to use the nuclear option to change the rules, i think they could set themselves up to be in a better position to influence president trump s next supreme court nominee if somebody retires than if they just changed the rules. in which case trump doesn t even have to consider how the next supreme court justice pick would pick or how to get them through the senate, but if it they decide to just go to the mat over this one, then he won t have to take democrats into account. that s such a good point. democrats give up their leverage for a next pick if they go to the mat on this one. the next one could matter immensely because this is, again, a younger scalia replacing a scalia. not a big shift in the idealogical balance of the court, but a lot of people also think a lot of conservatives say justice kennedy in private conversations says he wants to retire, and he thinks, oh, trump is doing w
leagues here, and he is going to be the deciding vote on the future of the court for a long time, it appears. this is an important decision. when someone moves up to the supreme court level, different important questions are asked, and people are much more careful. that s the way it ought to be. makes perfect sense. what the democratic senator says there. it also makes perfect sense for the president and republicans to say you lod him last time, he got through without any objection. this is all partisan. i this i it helps republicans enormously from a public relations perspective to be able to say look at all these guys. over a dozen democrats were in the senate when they allowed him through, and i think there are also even now where a few hours into his nomination, democrats are writing statements that are basically saying he deserves a vote. if they re starting, you know, day one not being on the same page about how to move forward procedurally, i think it s going to be very, ver
we can show you the map. some of them, you know, trump won michigan just barely. trump won florida just barely. how much wind does he have there? when you look at heidi of north dakota and joe manchin of west virginia, that was 32 points in west virginia. if you start, republicans have 52. senator durbin is on the record saying he wants a vote and not filibuster. there are a handful of democrats that have said that. that gets you up to 56, 58. they only need to peel a couple of the other people to make this go away and have 60. my question is, number one, we ll have to see if it works, but kudos to the republicans and conservatives for being ready to mount this campaign. the question is will it work? the republicans are aided by the fact that judge gorsuch is a known quantity, and also by the fact that he will not be changing the balance of the court if he is confirmed. because his views are seen as so similar to former justice scalia s, it is not the case that democrats can argue th