My guess is they didn’t want to come out against an accomplished Latina. We should remember that a lot of the Dems “ideas” is nothing more than identity politics. Yes, they opposed people like Janice Rodgers Brown in the past but only when the nominee had a much longer record they could target. Lagoa is young so there was less to attack.
LEt’s be honest, at the end of the day, she wouldn’t have made Trump’s list, after serving any period of time on a Circuit court, if she weren’t a textualist or an originalist.
Trump’s list is really just the Federalist Society’s list. Has been since 2015.