A fair trial, and a swift execution...

There's an interesting and very enlightening comment in the Washington Post article about the Supreme Court Vacancy today.

Democrats signaled that whoever the nominee is, their three likely lines of attack will be to assert the White House did not consult them sufficiently, then paint the nominee as ideologically extreme and finally assert that the Senate had not received sufficient documents about the candidate. But Senate Democratic aides said they will focus for now on bipartisan consultation and not publicly prejudge the nominee.

Ah, those open-minded Democrats...

The other day I said

The first public comments from everyone on the Democratic side following the nomination, whoever it is will go something like this: "The President had an opportunity to nominate a qualified and confirmable candidate. Unfortunately he chose to be a divider, not a uniter, and nominate X, a far-right extremist who clearly lacks the judicial temperament for a lifetime seat on the highest court in the land."

I take no particular credit for that prediction. It's akin to predicting that the sun will rise in the East tomorrow.