I’m glad that Kavanaugh was confirmed. The Court will be better with him than it was with Kennedy. But it’s not time to declare victory and assume a conservative majority for years to come.
Part of that conservative majority includes Roberts, and we know how he voted on Obamacare.
Part of that conservative majority includes Thomas, and too many of that good man’s years are behind him.
Conservatives are loath to overturn precedents in one swoop, even horrible precedents like Roe, like Delo, and like Kennedy’s gay marriage rulings. It will take years of big conservative majorities to chip away those precedents a little at a time.
We have only won a brief respite from horrible new legislation from the bench. If we really hope to recover the freedoms that black-robed tyrants have stolen from us over the last 50 years, we need to be in a position replace the liberals one by one as they step down: Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. That means winning the Presidency every election cycle and holding the Senate every election cycle, for years to come.
Agree. Two octagenarians, one morbidly obese type 1 diabetic, by the time Trump is done Kagan will, literally, be the last man standing on the left. Then we pop the champaign corks.
“That means winning the Presidency every election cycle and holding the Senate every election cycle, for years to come.”
That’s a very tall order. The American people (with two 4-year exceptions) have switched the Presidency from one party to the other every 8 years since WWII.
Carter was so miserable he couldn’t get reelected in 80 and Reagan got a third term with Bush I.
Totally agree with your post.