Donald Trump's Supreme Court Picks Could Ignite a War With the Left
Just weeks ago, buoyed by favorable polls and a sense of her campaign's momentum, progressive legal activists dared to embrace the possible: That President Hillary Clinton, presented with at least one and perhaps as many as four Supreme Court vacancies, would smash the three-decade-long conservative majority, pushing the court firmly to the left.
Then, President-elect Donald J. Trump happened. The surprise Republican tsunami that swept a celebrity billionaire to power and gave the GOP control of the Senate – along with the Supreme Court nomination process – swamped liberals' hopes of a high court recalibration in their favor.
"Trump's decisive, map-realigning victory, was in large part won by his focus on the Supreme Court issue," Ken Blackwell, a former Ohio state treasurer, conservative thought leader and Trump insider, told USA Today the day after the election. "The American people showed their rejection and disdain for adding more liberals to the court by voting to re-elect a Republican Senate," which is responsible for Supreme Court confirmations.
Progressives, however, insist they've got Republicans right where they want them: emboldened by Trump and out of step with most Americans.
Far from despondent or in disarray, they say, the left is organized, energized, raking in contributions and spoiling for a Supreme Court nomination fight. They're also itching to deliver payback for Republicans' unprecedented decision to stall the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland, the center-left candidate President Barack Obama chose to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.
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Fuck Mitch McConnell - he has been aiming his middle finger at Obama on this issue ever since Scalia died. They say we should take the constitution literally? Let Obama get at least one pick before he leaves office. If they don't, I will never believe anything they say about the constitution ever again. 
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