That’s if you believe Trump didn’t just “convert” to “conserving-tism” on guns, abortion, taxes, etc. just to win the primary. He is still liberal on many issues, like NSA surveillance which he loves. If he looks for a judge who backs the NSA surveillance he likes, we’re losing something already. Not to mention, if many GOP presidents appointed bad judges they didn’t “sniff out” properly, how can we expect political newbie Trump to not make the same mistake?
Will any of his immigration policy stand when there is a court who will block it on “equal protection” violations? No conservative law will stand.
Many valid counterpoints from you and others, JediJones. Most all of the remaining players have brought us to this point -
Problem. They did build that. They (current and former) should all be in prison for plundering America.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
Enforcer/Beneficiary - IRS and the weaponized agencies of the superstate.
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.” - list of grievances; Declaration
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt
7. It must not be forgotten that the members of the legislative body are to have a deep stake in the game. This is an essential point, and happily is attended with no difficulty. A sufficient number, properly disposed, can alternately legislate and speculate, and speculate and legislate, and buy and sell, and sell and buy, until a due portion of the property of their constituents has passed into their hands to give them an interest against their constituents
8. The ways in which a great debt, so constituted and applied, will contribute to the ultimate end in view are both numerous and obvious. (1) The favorite few, thus possessed of it, whether within or without the government, will feel the staunchest fealty to it, and will go through thick and thin to support it in all its oppressions and usurpations. (2) Their money will give them consequence and influence, even among those who have been tricked out of it. (3) They will be the readiest materials that can be found for a hereditary aristocratic order, whenever matters are ripe for one. (4) A great debt will require great taxes; great taxes, many taxgatherers and other officers; and all officers are auxiliaries of power.
Rules for Radicals? No, “Rules for Changing a Limited Republican Government into an Unlimited Hereditary One”
http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm