they are screwed either way.
They really did. They’ve played this incredibly poorly and they’re totally boxed in at this point. It’s really going to cost them down the road if they don’t admit defeat now and permit an end to debate.
Gorsuch replacing Scalia changes nothing. Gorsuch is in fact probably to the left of Scalia.
But a conservative replacing Ginsberg and/or Breyer changes the whole galaxy!
If the filibuster was still in place, Trump might be persuaded, in order to avoid a big fight, to replace the far left Ginsberg with a moderate. No reason to even consider that if he only needs 50 votes. Go ahead and replace the hag with a true constitutionalist. There’s nothing standing in the way.
That changes everything because the only way the left is able to succeed is through a corrupt, dishonest judiciary that is willing to write left wing law out of thin air. Without that they have no law making ability, and therefore no real power, at all.