The 360 | Is confirming Barrett worth the possible blowback for the GOP?
Confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, began Monday. With just three weeks until Election Day, the debate over the nomination has been as much about whether it’s appropriate for Republicans to fill the seat at this time, as it has been about Barrett’s qualifications.
Control of the courts has long been a priority for the GOP. Adding Barrett to the Supreme Court would be the culmination of a decades-long effort to infuse the federal judiciary with conservative-leaning legal minds. But doing so will mean going against public opinion. A majority of Americans say the seat should be filled by whomever wins the presidential election in November.
Democrats may be motivated to make major changes to the court“Under McConnell, the Senate has been run according to a simple principle: Parties should use as much power as they have to achieve the outcomes they desire. … It is a dramatic transformation of the Senate as an institution, with reverberations McConnell cannot control and that his party may come to regret.
Democrats have a lot more to gain from the court being a central issue“As for the party bases, the Republican base already votes, and has been energized about Supreme Court appointments for a long time. It’s unlikely that the Ginsburg replacement will increase their turnout much. On the Democratic side, it’s just the opposite.” — Kevin Drum, Mother Jones The nomination fight won’t have much of an effect on the election “This kind of thing does indeed fuel cynicism, and rightly so.
A 6-3 conservative court could make it impossible for Democrats to enact their agenda“A Supreme Court with six conservative justices would be far less likely to rule in favor of future Democratic policy proposals, such as Medicare for All or the Green New Deal, and far more likely to uphold conservative ones.” — Matt Ford, New Republic
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