When President Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court last year, I predicted, “The real fight will come later, if and when one of the liberal Justices (Ginsburg, for example), or the swing-voting Kennedy, departs the court through death or retirement and creates another vacancy. At that point, when the ideological balance of the court could tilt decisively rightward, the Democrats will really pull out the stops. In the meantime, consider the liberal opposition to Gorsuch a dress rehearsal for the ugly battle yet to come.”
Later in 2017, after Justice Gorsuch had been narrowly confirmed by a 54-45 vote, I warned American Greatness readers, “The recent Senate battle to confirm . . . Gorsuch, requiring elimination of the filibuster, will seem like a chorus of ‘Kumbaya' when the pivotal seats now held by Justice Anthony Kennedy or Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg become vacant.”
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