For all the constitutional mischief they’re in the midst of making, we should probably thank the 50+ senate Republicans for giving us an extended moment to see so clearly just who they really are.
Remember that this entire political uproar is supposedly about originalism, the need for judges who will interpret the law and the constitution not according to our personal wishes or the political needs of the moment, but according to its original and long-settled meaning. That is, we’re told, their aim. And yet to accomplish this they are quite happy to use a demonstrably bogus interpretation of the constitution to overturn two centuries of settled understanding of what the document means and requires.
Before everyone’s eyes, everything about the constitution is subservient to their need for power.
Their very victory, should it come to that, is their badge of hypocrisy. Their arguments are all at war with themselves. But they don’t care. This is just about perpetuating their own power by any means necessary, using narrow majorities to lock in their power for the long haul.
