5. Assuming nominee Mier is confirmed, IMHO it looks like the Supreme Court makeup is going to be pretty close to the same with respect to judicial philosophy.
Your points, numbers #4 and #5, contradict each other. If we don't know how she'll rule, then we don't know what the new judicial philosophy of the court will be.
BTW, if you're going to contradict yourself in a punch-list of ideas, the best thing to do is try and have a greater enumerated spacing between the contradicting points.
Okay?