Ginsberg was already having health issues and before 2016, even in an R Senate, liberals told her to retire. She didn't do what she was supposed to do; consequently, giving Anthony Kennedy the opening the opportunity to give Trump a 5th Conservative Judge.
RBG and Roberts werent the swing vote, Kennedy hid his friendship with the Trumps' very well and did what they wanted, for a generation of a Supermajority Senate.
Biden also, sent to the floor Clarence Thomas nomination, in Dem majority panel on the Judiciary, Clarence Thomas didn't have the votes, but Alan Dixon, whom was defeated by Carol Mosley Braun was the culprit to getting Thomas the vacany
This just sounds weird and overly complicated. Why would Kennedy want to do this then to just be that conservative in the past? And he trusts Trump to pick his replacement because they sit in the same bong circle or something?
I assume he's referring to this:
Anthony Kennedy's Son Gave Donald Trump $1 Billion in Loans at Deutsche BankBut they had a connection, one Mr. Trump was quick to note in the moments after his first address to Congress in February 2017. As he made his way out of the chamber, Mr. Trump paused to chat with the justice.
“Say hello to your boy,” Mr. Trump said. “Special guy.”
Mr. Trump was apparently referring to Justice Kennedy’s son, Justin. The younger Mr. Kennedy spent more than a decade at Deutsche Bank, eventually rising to become the bank’s global head of real estate capital markets, and he worked closely with Mr. Trump when he was a real estate developer, according to two people with knowledge of his role.
During Mr. Kennedy’s tenure, Deutsche Bank became Mr. Trump’s most important lender, dispensing well over $1 billion in loans to him for the renovation and construction of skyscrapers in New York and Chicago at a time other mainstream banks were wary of doing business with him because of his troubled business history.