Republicans Will Regret Their Supreme Court Power Play

Matt Lewis: “Democrats understandably feel cheated and aggrieved. It is one thing not to have Merrick Garland seated, but it’s another to win the popular vote and then watch two conservative Supreme Court justices be put on the Court. If the roles were reversed, I sincerely doubt that McConnell and others would be saying, ‘Well, it’s all about power. and they are playing the game to the best that they are able.'”

“When the ends always justify the means, then the means become more and more egregious in the service of the ends. The most common retort when this is pointed out is: well, what about Robert Bork? And that’s all well and good. Maybe Democrats should rethink the way they handled that nomination.”

“And maybe Harry Reid should rethink why he did away with the filibuster. But at some point, this game of one-upmanship, turned mutually assured destruction, becomes unsustainable. ‘You’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think,’ then-Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned when Reid went nuclear. Well, that works both ways.”