Todd's Mischief Blog

President Trump took the "win-win-win..." approach on his first SCOTUS pick. There's literally no downside to nominating Neil Gorsuch. If Gorsuch is approved by the Senate, then he replaces Antonin Scalia as a Constitutional originalist heir-apparent. If Democrats try to block such a qualified and uncontroversial appointment—and moreso if they succeed—they beclown themselves further than they already have in the last few weeks, (if that's even possible.) But that's wonk stuff that gets covered everywhere. The big win is how he caught everyone off guard. Yesterday, like many others, I was still jabbing at Trump's flower-ceremony-like approach to his announcement for SCOTUS. After lots of long, drawn out teasing about the candidates on his list and how he was narrowing it down, Trump theatrically summoned both of his final candidates to Washington D.C. ahead of the official announcement. But a tweet from Sen. Ben Sasse helped me to see the drama for what it wa