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FBaggins

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4. He's everything they want in a judge

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Thu Apr 6, 2017, 06:22 PM

Apr 2017

Young and reliably conservative.

He's also unobjectionable enough to the more moderate Republican senators (Collins, etc.) that they would be willing to go nuke... Because what they want more than anything is to replaced Ginsburg/Breyer with someone like him, and that wouldn't happen without first killing it.

Oh... And they firmly believe that the filibuster was already gone for their use anyway.

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