HEWITT FALLS FOR TRUMP LINE ON SUPREME COURT

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8/15/2016

Hewitt Falls for Trump Line on Supreme Court

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 7:58 am

 

Hugh Hewitt beats his Supreme Court drum once again in advocating for the election of a con man to be the Republican President. Hugh describes an exchange he had with Donald Trump in which Trump not only promised to stick to his previously announced list or something very much like it, but also said that McConnell could block his nominees if they turned out to be very different. Hugh says:

 

There you have it. If Donald Trump departs from his list of future Supreme Court nominees, Donald Trump has authorized Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans to block that nominee and enforce the list. And I have no doubt that they would, because not only have they shown the collective spine to do so in the course of the Garland debate, here they have irrefutable evidence of the potential president’s consent to a future blockade if necessary.

Trump is thus now effectively stopped from effectively arguing against the Senate’s refusal to confirm an unacceptable nominee.

 

Now Ben and others can conjure up all sorts of hypotheticals wherein Trump backtracks or McConnell and the Senate GOP caves. But there is no way any additional proof can be brought forward on the subject. Clinging to objections that the Supreme Court argument has no weight now is in fact proof that “We can’t trust him” was cover all along to avoid the discomfort of counting the cost of helping to defeat Trump and elect Clinton.