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Who should replace Justice Antonin Scalia is the political question du jour. But on Sunday, Jeb Bush was also asked to answer for his father's and brother's appointees to the Supreme Court - specifically David Souter, appointed by President George H. W. Bush, and Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who was appointed by President George W. Bush and helped uphold President Obama's health care law. "Well, the Souter choice was unfortunate," Mr. Bush said, speaking on CNN's "State of the Union." "He wandered off into the liberal camp for sure." But he defended his brother's choice of Mr. Roberts.

I’m done. Until the fundamental dynamic of the GOP primary race changes, I’m done with parsing debate winners and losers. So long as Donald Trump dominates an overly-large field of ambitious, fratricidal competitors, we will continue to see absurdities like the following: 1. Trump — the Republican front-runner, no less — borrowing language from MoveOn.org and Daily Kos to advance the absurd “Bush lied, people died” Iraq War narrative, attacking his fellow Republicans with far more fury than even Hillary Clinton can muster. 2. Trump repeatedly and loudly holding George Bush responsible for 9/11 and the fall of the World...