Guardian UK: Brian Sandoval for supreme court seat is 'downright absurd', liberal activists say - Obama vetting Nevada governor for nomination could be strategy to break GOP blockade but may prompt resistance from Senate Democrats, experts say
His nomination could leave Senate Republicans in battleground states struggling to explain why they object to one of their own. The Senate unanimously confirmed Sandoval as a district court judge in 2005 after he was nominated by President George W Bush. He quit the bench in 2009 to run for governor and has implemented Obama’s Affordable Care Act. But many Democrats would find such an overtly political move unpalatable.
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If Obama puts a GOP pol on the SCOTUS he will be hated by the base of his own party forever. WTF is he thinking, this is chance that the left has been waiting for for decades. I think if he does this it's proof positive that he was a conservative all along.
I get the sense he's doing it as a political tool to try and leverage a Democratic win in November. It's chancy as far as I can see. He wants to GOP to shit all over itself, which it's pretty good at doing most of the time anyhow, by rejecting one of their own kind to smite Obama. Obama may be thinking that Sandoval is Scalia light, not quite as over the top, so he is bring the court back a small notch. Sandoval is allegedly a moderate Repub but WTF does that mean now?
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