RE: So the question is, which one of them is he planning to knock off?
Here’s my guess -— the oldest conservative — SCALIA.
That gives him one more liberal to nominate, and a LIBERAL majority.
Seems like there was a pretty good John Grisholm novel about something like this ... The Pelican Brief
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