I'm putting my tin foil hat on...what if this is all a smoke screen to throw the libs off track. I mean, if you are a lawyer with really high aspirations, thinking ahead, and want to be a supreme court nominee, somewhere in your career you do a little pro bono work for a liberal cause and voila, the libs think you are ok, your nomination sails through, and you get a really good conservative on the court.
ok, hat is off
Problem with that theory is that highly principled people do not "game" the system that way. Only highly ambitious people do that, and they are rarely driven by principles.
That's not who we need on the Sup Ct.