Sadly the Republicans wee responsible for most of this. Orin Hatch recommended Ginsberg, and another lefty that I forget, as two choices that would sail through the Senate committee which Hath chaired, and sure enough they did.
Orin Hatch is one of those reasons the GOP needs to go.
He’s a popular guy, but basically - he’s an idiot. But he is a Mormon Idiot from Utah who has racked up his share of “favors” for the local constituents and is basically a nice guy. But he’s a lib.
He needs to be replaced by an intelligent conservative Mormom from Utah with Testacles - there are a LOT of them around.
Yeah, the Republicans had the silly idea that if a president won an election,
he should be able to appoint the judges that he wants to as a result of that win.
The Democrats during the Bush admin showed us how wrong the GOP was on that view. The SENATE (or at least 41 members of it) gets to determine what judges are appointed.
/sarc