OlfinBedwere on 06 October 2018
| morenoingrato said: What baffles me is why they didn't go with another, maybe even more conservative judge like Gorsuch after everything. They just had to fight that one until the bitter end. |
Aside from Trump worrying such a move would make him look weak, there's no guarantee that they'd have been able to push through the appointment before the mid-terms, or that the Republicans will have control of the senate after them. He probably thought it was better to install a moderate conservative rather than risk having to put a moderate liberal on as a compromise with a Democrat-controlled senate.
