Trump’s laid out a handful of aces.
But more significantly, he’s forced Hillary’s hand-——she’d like to keep her selections secret....but that strategy is now kaput.
“Give ‘em up, Hillary. Your liberal S/C picks will hammer more nails in your liberal coffin.”
There are multiple ways to hurt Hillary with this list.
First, the Bernie crew is against Garland because, believe it or not, he's not liberal enough. So, does Hillary say she'll keep Garland, pissing off the Bernie crew... or does she go with someone else, pissing off Obama and his base?
Also, if she tries to demonize Trump's list, she risks alienating voters in their home states, who would understandably be proud to have one of their own on the USSC.
And... isn't it an interesting coincidence how many on that list come from states that Trump has targeted. Iowa, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Colorado...
Excellent point. In terms of warfare, because that's what running a campaign against Hillary is, he's seized the initiative and anything she does will be seen as a reaction.
I think she'll delay any answer as long as she can, because that's her style, and she intends to use that office as she has used everything else she has ever controlled, as a playing piece in a game of political patronage. For Hillary, absolutely everything is for sale.
But it’s still a slap at the Ivy cartel.
Trump's entire campaign is a slap at the Ivy cartel, among others. That cartel has its members deeply embedded in the media and, naturally, academia, and carries with it a sense of entitlement to rule only slightly short of the Divine Right of Kings. They'll need more than a slap.
Hillary could keep her list a secret or she could release it, it doesn't make a difference. We all know what kind of justices she would pick, they would be anti originalists.
No, Trump's release of his list is to rally Trump skeptics and it's a good list to do that.