President Trump arrives at Pat’s King of Steaks in Philly to thunderous applause! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/RxuSXogJxK— Jason Miller (@JasonMillerinDC) June 30, 2023
🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸
@mrddmia
Fact Check: 💯 True.
Trump’s flawless Gorsuch nomination and confirmation united weak and wobbly Senate Republicans to run over the Democrats’ filibuster and lower the vote threshold from 60 to 51.
This comforted Kennedy enough to retire, so Trump could replace Kennedy with his protege—and still keep weak and wobbly Senate Republicans onboard.
(There’s no chance another Alito or Thomas could have been confirmed in 2018, with Collins, Murkowski, Flake, and others being so weak and wobbly.)
If Kavanaugh’s nomination failed, Republicans would’ve lost the Senate in 2018 and the Court after 2020.
Trump never blinked, even when almost every Senate Republican did.
Instead, we pulled the rabbit out of the hat.
And knocked out 4 Senate Democrat incumbents and picked up 2 seats (when Republicans lost the House).
This paved the way for Trump’s replacement of Ginsburg with Barrett.
First constitutionalist Supreme Court majority in 90 years.
I can think of no other Republican—besides Trump—who had the political skills, force of personality, and backbone to pull this off.
When anyone claims any other Republican president could do this or do this better, they clearly do not understand how the process actually works. And they would have clearly failed.
(I’ve worked on judicial nominations in the White House, Justice Department, Senate, and @Article3Project.)
Trump’s transformation of the federal judiciary was his most consequential accomplishment of his first term.
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Manish Pamwar
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Replying to @mrddmia
Another republican would have withdrawn Kavanaugh, left RBG’s seat open. Nominated Roberts type when had a chance
5:19 PM · Jun 30, 2023
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Now why on earth would Jason Miller post on Twitter and not GETTR?! Isn’t he the guy who started GETTR? He’s got nothing on his GETTR page and I can’t see any Twitter. I didn’t realize how much I watched things on Twitter!