This is exactly the path the President needs to take. He would win this hands down. If the Dems were against judge after judge after judge, with the Pres, and all the Pubs on TV night after night, doing pressers on the steps of congress, the Dems would cause such a impression of extremism, it would be bad on them, real bad.
The Pubs should call them extreme and give the personal stories of those like Janice Rogers Brown on TV, over and over, asking "what's wrong with this accomplished black woman?"
This would put the Dems in such a bad light with the American people that they wouldn't be able to investigate anything about the war without looking like they're extreme again. "Out to get the president".
Congress could very well go back to the Pubs again in two years, just on this issue alone, if the Pubs and the President are in unison and unrelenting.
It would work.