I know what he’s doing.
He wants Obamacare struck down.
He wants to run with this as a 2012 election issue.
Vote for me, I will make sure the court gets the right people on it.
There will be a lot of upcoming retirements. If he’s in the next 4 years, all the libs who retire get replaced with Sotofatasses or Boatload Kagans. All the conservatives who retire get replaced with Sotofatasses or Boatload Kagans.
Then the court will have no judicial activism because they will all be liberal and when liberals do judicial activism, it’s not judicial activism.
This is what is going on. Start getting prepared. We have to make sure our cnadidates pledge to nominate only strict constitutionalists to the SCOTUS and EVERY position underneath it. No moderates or liberals anywhere. We are already swimming in them and are suffering for it, some for decades now.
It would help him on the contraception issue—he would have reassured his base that he cares about their concerns, and get the Catholic bishops to shut up since they would be off the hook.