The removal and replacement of Kennedy is nothing short of obstruction of justice.

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24. Kennedy would most likely have voted with Trump anyway.

We are all frustrated because we see the Court turning into an arm of the Republican Party. But Kennedy has always been an unpredictable vote, and recently he has swung to the right. Given what we know now about the very close family connection to Trump’s Deutsche Bank loans and the likely compromat that Russia has given Trump on Kennedy’s son, what is the likelihood that Kennedy would have voted against Trump in the future. i hate to be defeatist, but Democrats simply do not have the votes to stop a new confirmation. They may delay it a bit, but McConnell will run roughshod over their efforts. Relying on a sitting Republican senator like Collins or Murkowski to vote with Democrats is dreaming. Their careers would be over. Jeff Flake has already said he would support Trump’s nominee. Corker is only 65 and I doubt that he just plans to sit in his rocking chair. He would be risking Republican retaliation that could prevent him from consulting or doing anything to use his influence in any business or political way. Which leaves McCain. Even if he could get back to DC to vote and all 49 Democrats held to the party line, that’s still a 50-50 vote and Pence can break the tie. Most likely, the best we can do is to extract a promise that the nominee will recuse himself from any appeals involving the Trump-Russia investigation. The only other possibility I can think of is that investigative reporters dig up enough dirt—and right-wing extremist religious types tend to have dirt like racist remarks that could derail a nominee’s hearings.