(09-22-2018, 04:49 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: This is all about making the 3 RINOS happy so they will vote in his favor. Else, the SCOTUS may only have 8 people until Trumps reelection in 2020.

Know what would solve that? A Constitutional amendment requiring that all Supreme Court nominations made by a sitting President be heard within that Congressional term unless the President is in a "lame duck" period (between a November election they lose or do not participate in and their January inauguration) or if there is not enough time left to conduct a hearing. Exact length of time would be up to legislators and voters to decide on. This would prevent stupid situations like McConnell's "yeah, we're just not gonna consider anyone because we don't have to" and the current "zomg RAAAAAAAAAAAAPEexceptnotreally" things from interfering with the Constitutional duty of the Senate to approve or reject Supreme Court nominees.

And yeah, if Kavanaugh is not seated by midterms, it's not necessarily bad news for Trump. Extrapolating a bit here from bits and pieces of what I've seen across a range of news sites, spectrumwide: Trump is likely going to lose the House. There's a chance he loses the Senate, and if he doesn't have Kavanaugh seated before midterms, that chance increases significantly because if he can't get his own team to confirm his selection... 

Losing Congress is not a kiss of death to his Presidency by any means, because he could pretty easily spin the lack of anything getting done as Congress' fault for refusing to work with him. Also, Democrats still don't have a viable candidate for 2020. The name I keep seeing coming up is Elizabeth Warren, and holy crap, if she's elected President, I am moving to Cuba for a free market economy. There remains a pretty good chance that Congress turns blue, Trump wins reelection and we get a repeat of Clinton's second term, where nothing gets done and Congress decides to try and remove the President because they're bored.

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