I wouldn't be surprised if Mitch tossed Kavanaugh under the bus

[ecstatic]

Kav is rightwing, but he's not as rightwing as what Mitch and the ultra right were hoping for. MoscowMitch could toss Kav aside and try to get someone more rightwing appointed before trump is impeached.

The court’s new median justice is Kavanaugh, continuing a trend to the right

Last year, we wrote that Roberts would likely land at the ideological center of the court in Kennedy’s absence, and he did — but so did Kavanaugh, who voted in almost total lock-step with Roberts. In fact, Kavanaugh was actually slightly closer to the center than Roberts was, according to their Martin-Quinn scores, a prominent measure of judicial ideology calculated by scholars Lee Epstein and Andrew Martin of Washington University in St. Louis and Kevin Quinn of the University of Michigan using data from the Supreme Court Database. As the chart below shows, their scores were almost indistinguishable:



https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-supreme-court-might-have-three-swing-justices-now/

Thoughts?

[FBaggins]

1. Not a chance

He’s plenty conservative

[Xipe Totec]

6. Forget conservative - Mitch has skin in the game. nt

[FBaggins]

8. True enough... and it wouldn't make sense anyway

They have our attention, so the energy levels are back up... but the current claims add essentially nothing to what we had heard during the hearings (in fact - they probably subtract). It would make little sense for them to change course at this point.

[TwilightZone]

2. In my opinion, Kavanaugh's early votes are cover for moving right later.

I think he's putting on a front so he can shift right when people stop paying attention. I doubt that he remains in the Roberts realm long-term.

[ecstatic]

7. I was thinking that too... nt

[guillaumeb]

3. But that could set a precedent.

McConnell has no respect for the Democrats, or for public opinion in general. He is a bought and paid for shill for the rich.

[TwilightZone]

4. "try to get someone more rightwing appointed before trump is impeached."

Presidents under impeachment can still nominate justices. And Mitch would no doubt still rubber-stamp them.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Oh, don't tease me!

Ain't NO way Moscow Mitch would allow anything to happen to one of his prize puppies!

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. I have thought that for a couple days now.

They seem to have hit on a distraction that may outlast a 24 hour news cycle.

Sucks to be Brett.