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[Dereich]

JCL has the right line of approach here. Even though I don't really like the guy, I trusted that Cruz had the legal experience and ideological commitment to chose judicial nominees who were conservative and even more importantly good jurists. Someone who has clerked with SCOTUS isn't appointing a Roy Moore to the court.

Trump? First, I don't trust that his appointments will be either. I just flat out don't trust his judgment. Its impossible to know where he stands on issues because of his daily lies and flip-flops, so I don't expect conservative jurists. He doesn't stick to any of this other statements so I don't see why he'd stick to some list.

I also don't expect that he'll appoint good jurists. Justice Thomas told a group of us that when he was talking with Bush 1 the president looked him in the eye and told him "once you're up there, I won't hold it against you if you rule against me." He then repeated that several times in a row. Does anyone, ANYONE, expect Trump who had NEVER rolled with the punches or shown thick skin to do the same? I expect that Trump will want absolute loyalty to him, a TERRIBLE standard for the court. Plus, he has few advisors and those he does have aren't great and aren't listened to. I expect Trump to go for a toady and/or a terrible jurist. He wouldn't bring in a good Court.