Opinion: Will the Democrats' threats to retaliate against a Supreme Court vote backfire? (via latimesopinion)
For Senate Republicans, the risk is that voting on a Supreme Court nominee now will tag them as ends-justify-the-means hypocrites. That’s because 4½ years ago, they refused even to hold a hearing on President Obama’s final Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, proclaiming that confirmation votes shouldn’t happen in an election year.
Yet Republicans may also see a chance here to provoke Democrats into threatening a bunch of changes that delight the folks on the left wing but unsettle people in the middle. That would play right into Trump’s effort to portray his November opponent — former Vice President Joe Biden — and congressional Democrats as puppets of the most extreme voices in their party.
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