What will last of Trump?

[Dill]

(07-18-2018, 08:51 PM)michaelsean Wrote: The same kinds of checks that exist with a Dem President and a Dem Senate.  They vet you, they question you, they have hearings and then they confirm you. It’s the presidents choice, and the senate should just make sure the nominee is qualified and sane. And yes I was against the Republicans holding up Obama’s last pick.

Your first two sentences indicate how the process works in the abstract. The last indicates how it actually works in these partisan times--not necessarily the same as with a dem president and a dem Senate.

The president gets to nominate candidates. The actual choice is shared between the two branches, since the Senate confirms. I would argue the Senate should/has always been concerned with more than qualification and sanity.  Court balance and how a nominee's judicial philosophy will effect that are also a traditional consideration.  Previously, an ideologue might be sane and qualified, but face bipartisan rejection.

So I am suggesting that checks which operated in the past to hinder selection of a judge far out of the mainstream may not be in play any more.