NightlyPoe said:
Trump's got his list, and pretty much all of them are qualified. The person he chooses will most likely have sterling credentials. I agree that having the Supreme Court be a battleground for politics is a huge failure. But I blame one ideological camp for that, liberals. They long ago decided that the law isn't important and that rulings should be based on who they morally think should win. They have set up a super-legislature. The reason that the Federalist Society was born was a direct allergic reaction to such an unprincipled and dangerous abuse of our least democratic and supposedly neutral branch of government.
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There's a lot to unpack in this. First of all you need to elaborate on why you blame specifically liberals for the politicization the Supreme Court. There's been a literalism vs contextualism debate essentially since the Constitution was drafted, and each side essentially translates to conservatives vs liberals. They have been fighting for sway in the Supreme Court since I don't even know how long.
Plus to say that liberals deem that "the law isn't important" is fairly inaccurate, and honestly charged with bias. To place the blame entirely on one camp is part of the issue.
As it stands, I do not agree that all of Trump's candidates have great credentials, and I certainly wouldn't even agree that many measure up to the position. Mike Lee for example is a Utah Republic Senator who has never even served as a judge. He is also a person who is know to be committed to his conservative principles. This does not seem unbiased to me.
Again, the entire American system and the divide between liberal and conservative in the country is simply backwards. Trump can and probably will elect a very conservative judge and turn this Supreme Court to the most Conservative in recent American history. This is also in light that Conservative judges have already had the number advantage for the last half century. It would be equally wrong if it was this liberal dominated.
Not to mention that laws by definition are to uphold what is morally right in society. If we were to begin a discussion on this though it would involve a lot of unpacking of premises that is simply too time-consuming.
