Me The People by Nancy Ohanian-by Emorej What happens if Mitch McConnell now quickly schedules a Senate vote on confirming one more Supreme Court Justice who is extremely pro private property and freedom of contract, at the expense of workers, consumers and presumably of reproductive rights and under-represented group protections? What is more likely than the following?
• Big donors will bribe enough swing-vote senators to ensure confirmation of the new Justice. • Under the new court’s super-majority of six Rightwing Justices, big donors will be protected from any inconvenient demands of voters. Dilution of this majority through court “packing” would not happen quickly-- if ever. • Having secured this protection, big donors will mostly regard Donald Trump as having delivered all his upsides, leaving only downsides in a second term. • Big donors will find more attractive a Biden-Harris administration’s predictable effort to calm, while less-flamboyantly continuing to disempower, both Right and Left populists. • The Supreme Court should share these preferences and, despite having only three Democrat-appointed Justices, should find a majority of five (probably including the W-appointed Roberts and Alito) to formalize the election of Biden-Harris.
The above scenario suggests that:
• RBG’s death is a very mixed blessing for Trump. • If Trump is anything like the deal-maker he claims to be then, before triggering the above sequence, he would prioritize obtaining a promise that Pence, upon Trump’s resignation, would pardon Trump for all federal crimes like Ford did for Nixon. Perhaps a big donor or two could quietly create some type of financial surety to reduce the risk of promises being broken. (All of this could presumably be implemented after the Nov. 3 election, although that would leave only a tight time window in which the sequence would need to be very rapid in order to be completed).
Source