“If the Republicans ‘ROLLOVER’ AGAIN, it will also mark the DEATH of the Republican party.”
here’s my intuition:
Obama and the libs know they will not get Scalia’s replacement this year as the one that can get by the Senate will never be liberal enough for them. So...they are looking at the future, with almost a certain GOP president and maybe GOP Senate with liberal Gingsburg being replaced.
Gingsburg in a very short while announces her retirement. This means two current open positions, making it far more likely to bring pressure to get someone this year. A deal is struck with Obama that allows him one to pick)a liberal Gingsburg replacement) the Senate will confirm for one pick delayed until next year.
The GOP will fold as a very lib pick will be on Court and we will NEVER get another solid conservative like Scalia.
If Ginsburg retires, it swings the Court to seven (cases can be decided by a 4-3 majority) thereby taking the urgency of replacing off the table. She’ll hang on.
Now I’m going to put on my asbestos here...cause I know the flames are going to come. But (not knowing the wide field of judicial candidates already sitting on benches across the country) the first name that comes to my mind as a STRONG Constitutionalist is Sen Ted Cruz. He’s a young man...four or eight years in the White House can do a lot—but THIRTY years on the SCOTUS would, IMO, do much more for the Country.
Just my two cents. An “r” wins and nominates Cruz (from some sort of back room deal they looks at the big picture—keep the Senate R and take the WH). That’s why the backbiting and middle school antics of ALL last night (exceptions for good behavior for Dr Carson and Gov Kasich) was so infuriating.