Today's Event and the Supreme Court short list

Today, we are told, President Trump will announce his finalist for Supreme Court justice to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.

I expected, and still expect, the debate on the picks to be vile and so far they are somewhat exceeding my anticipation in that regard.  All of the names mentioned, to the extent I know anything about them (and I don't know much about them) have been excellent. This reflects the work of Republicans in the Senate and particularly Mitch McConnell, who have done a yeoman's job of finding potential Federal nominees over the past year or so who will actually apply the law.

This seems to be the one area, actually, where McConnell and Trump really are united in much.  The Federal bench has always been important to McConnell and that showed when the Senate Republicans held up President Obama's last Supreme Court nomination in a gamble that Trump would take the seat.  And so far that gamble has paid off.

It's also creating histrionics on the part who prefer to see the Supreme Court as a hyper liberal board of Lords.  And the degree to which that is the case is really apparent. Nothing a judicially conservative Supreme Court does can't be overturned legislatively in one fashion or another.  And that's the very point of those crying in their Voss Water.  The underlying loathing of conservative picks is that they might send things back to the legislatures and the people. . . and those folks just can't be trusted to impose upon themselves the progressive world view that liberal politicians want to have imposed on them, and indeed already have, by way of the Court.  Convincing five out of nine robbed individuals who are secure in lifetime appointments is one thing. . . convincing the electorate is quite another.

Personally I'm hoping for Amy Coney Barrett.  Liberals already hate her, and yet they have no real reason to do other than that she's believed to be a judicial conservative and most particularly she's a sincere practicing Catholic.  She's done such hated things as adopt two Haitian orphans, one with special needs.  So she's a woman whom fits the mold more perfectly of the post baby boom American female who doesn't see a conflict with conservative views and positions of power for working women.  The likes of people like Diane Feinstein simply can't tolerate them. . .which is why a politician like Hillary Clinton was nominated as the Democrats last Presidential candidate in spite of being deeply disliked and being a generational anachronism.