Hallelujah! The Supreme Court is now saved..........

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Great job republicans, you ensured that no president would be able to nominate a judge in the last year of his presidency if the Senate was controlled by the opposing party

But the Democrats would have done the exact same thing if they controlled the Senate and a Republican President in the last year of his administration nominated a conservative judge to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court.

Of that I have no doubt.

Maybe, but more likely the payback is that the next time they control everything, the Dems just add seats 10-13.  Frankly, I don't see how you can de-escalate the SCOTUS fight at this point.

Democrats blocked a ton of Bush appointments to the Appeals and District courts on the assumption they would win in 2008 and guess what they did. Republicans then picked up the blocking until the change in the filibuster allowing Reid to then send a crap ton of these Obama appointees through the Senate in early 2013.

Pull up that thread about Obama's legacy referring to how he got a record number of lower court appointees confirmed leaving a lasting legacy on the courts. He would not have had nearly as many if Tom Daschle and Harry Reid didn't load the bases for him to hit that home run by denying confirmation to Bush's choices. The simple fact of the matter is that Democrats have had blood on their hands since the Bush years when it comes to obstruction of the opposing President's judicial appointments.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Trump will nominate people like Chris Christie, this isn't going to be good for Conservatives or Libertarians.

I think he will defer to Jeff Sessions, Mike Pence and the record 81% of Evangelicals Trump received on the ideology and Ivanka on it being a women. Also he mentioned two names right after Scalia died, both were conservatives, only one of them is a women.

So my money is on us getting Associate Justice Sykes, as it has been since February.

She is highly qualified, a conservative and from a state key to Trump's win.

It would also stick it to her ex-husband, Wisconsin's NeverTrump radio host, Charlie Sykes. So even by that kind metric, she has to be the front runner.

Also, Christie just got sidelined by Mike Pence on the transition team.