Completely agree.
Amy Barrett now and then Thapar when Ginsburg is out which is when the real fireworks are going to start (assuming the (R)'s hold the Senate!!!) because that's when a tectonic shift in the court will happen. A straight up socialist, feminist, leftist for a Constitutionalist, "textualist".
The nominations being the other way around would be a much more difficult fight because then the libs would have a more 1 for 1 argument coming down to legal philosophy only and really nothing else.
The (D)'s also wouldn't be able to say the court lost a female.
I would like Amul Thapar, and I think he’ll be put on SCOTUS by President Trump eventually. Political calculation says it will be Amy Coney Barrett and rumor is swing Republican Senators Murkowski & Collins want only her. Their votes are needed for confirmation otherwise Dems like Manchin need to be recruited.
The optics are good. Judge Amy is a young, beautiful, Scalia-clerk, constitution-textualist, Catholic, mother of seven. What better way to show President Trump is “for women”. How could the ‘pussy hat’ women demonstrate against a woman? How would the Democrat male Senators look going against her? Could Michael Moore or Cher get a million people to march on Washington against her? Picking her for SCOTUS doesn’t have any downsides. That’s why the hit pieces are already coming out against Judge Amy. The other side already knows.