Here is what I see going down, as outlined by Dan Bongino:
The Left is in a tight place.
Here is a problem for them: The election does not look like it will be a “Blue Wave”. It may not be a “Red Wave”, but it likely won’t be a “Blue Wave”.
So here is the thought process for the Left:
Their only chance is to take back the Senate. But that doesn’t look likely. They have (IIRC) at least six senators up for re-election in states that went for Donald Trump in 2016, so their states supported Donald Trump.
If there is vote for a new justice prior to the election and they vote down that selection in a state that went for Donald Trump, that may not go over well, and they could lose their seat due to the political fallout.
So, here is what Trump should do: Get two candidates on deck, one who is very conservative and reliable, and one who is over the top conservative, a “Leftist Nightmare of a Supreme Court Justice”.
Trump will put up the very conservative and reliable one for nomination prior to the 2018 election, with the very public knowledge (unsaid of course) that if that “reliable” candidate is rejected, after the election, the wildly radically conservative candidate will be nominated.
The Leftists then have a gamble to consider: Do they accept the less radical candidate and vote them in before the election, or do they wait until after the election, when some Leftist senators from states that Trump won may go down due to the backlash to the rejection, and now they don’t have a chance to pick off enough Republican Senators (such as Collins from Maine and Murkowski from Alaska, both of who are raging RINOs and can likely be counted on by the Left) to counter the Democrat Senators who lost.
So, either they accept a conservative nominee we like and can live with, or they gamble, hoping against hope to regain power in the election to thwart any nominee. If they lose, they will get a radical conservative nominee who will be shoved down their throats, and they are going to just have to take it with no recourse.
That is how I see it going down.
Why not the worst first when we have the most leverage? If it’s moving keep pushing.
And FWIW, Trump and the Constitution will come out winners regardless of who he nominates.
Plus we need more conservative/constitutionalist oriented judges at the federal level. For example on June 30 FEMA money for the Puerto Ricans displaced from Hurricane Irma was to expire no more government money. But a federal judge ruled against this and that the Puerto Rican’s displaced by Irma are to still receive FEMA money. It has been almost 10 months since Hurricane Irma and because of a judge we are to continue giving them money. Heck its already 2018 hurricane season. The Puerto Ricans displaced by Irma have had plenty of time and government assistance to get their life back in order.
I view it as politicians via judges trying to buy the votes of those Puerto Ricans in swing states like Florida, especially with current polls showing Rick Scott leading Bill Nelson.
There is no such thing as a ‘radical conservative.’
Another strategy is to nominate the most coservative woman on the list. She will not be turned down by the current Republican Senate.
Then believing there will be a second opportunity, nominate the most conservative candidate on the list. RBG female slot is replaced before she resigns. Her actual replacement thus does not need to be a woman.
Having stated that scenario, I have no clue what the President and his crew are planning