Dear CV Friend,

Last July a headline in the New York Times declared:

"The Supreme Court has faded somewhat in importance as
frustration with the president grows."

The article explained how conservative groups hoped to prioritize
the future of the Supreme Court for voters. The problem: voters
were focused elsewhere, on the coronavirus threat, the economy,
and violence.

Last Friday evening, everything changed.

This morning President Trump announced he will nominate a
replacement for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as soon as
this Friday or Saturday. By this time next week, the
confirmation fight will be well underway -- and there's heavy
speculation that the nominee will be a Catholic pro-life woman.

How will this play out? Good? Bad?

FIRST: Consider that as of today there are only three committed
votes in favor of Roe v. Wade left on the Supreme Court. Sensing
the threat, Democrats are now talking about trying to pack the
Court with new seats if they win back the Senate and White House
in November.

As for the politics, here's our take:

Remember Kavanaugh? The Democrats were set to win big in 2018.
That is, until they viciously attacked Brett Kavanaugh. Pressed
by radical left-wing activists, Democrats accused Kavanaugh of
sexual assault, as well as being the ringleader of drunken
gang-rape parties. When it became clear the charges were
baseless, the public was outraged. And voters turned on the
Democrats.

Just ask Claire McCaskill. The pro-abortion "Catholic" Democrat
Senator from Missouri admitted that the "Kavanaugh spectacle" is
what made the difference in her election defeat. She's right.
The vicious smears and attacks backfired on Democrats.
Republicans added two seats in the Senate. And those seats loom
large in this upcoming fight.

It wasn't just McCaskill. In 2018, four of the five Democratic
senators in competitive races who voted AGAINST Justice Kavanaugh
lost their reelection bids. The only Democrat who voted FOR
confirming Justice Kavanaugh won his race.

The Left in America can't publicly defend judicial activism. So
they resort to baseless personal attacks to frame the
confirmation battles. We expect it will be much harder to frame
Amy Coney Barrett (or a similarly-qualified woman) as a gang-rape
leader or worse, as they did with Brett Kavanaugh. Further,
finger-wagging at a sharp, intelligent woman will not go over
well with critical suburban voters -- especially Catholics.

COVID in the background. Media pundits were ready to mark the
200,000th death from COVID this weekend -- with Democrats
preposterously pinning every death on the president. COVID
remains a serious issue, but the fever-pitch of a Supreme Court
nomination will likely push COVID off the front burner.

Remember:

Mitch McConnell has been perfectly consistent. According to
then-Senator Joe Biden (the "Biden Rule"), when the White House
and Senate are held by opposing parties, the Senate should hold
off filling a vacancy in a presidential election year -- as
Republicans did in 2016.

But McConnell and Republicans also made clear at the time: if the
White House and Senate are controlled by the same party, the
Constitution allows for full speed ahead.

That's always been the case. There's nothing new here. As
Democrats noted not too long ago, the Senate has confirmed 17
Supreme Court justices in election years.

Now President Trump and Senate Majority Leader McConnell hope to
make it 18...

Finally, let's not forget that Joe Biden and the Democrats turned
the confirmation of Supreme Court justices into the circuses they
are today when they trashed Robert Bork in 1987. Their maniacal
character assassination brought a new word to our dictionary. To
"bork" someone is to destroy a person's reputation in order to
advance a political goal.

They tried it again by smearing Clarence Thomas in 1991. They
went "nuclear" and got rid of the filibuster for judicial
nominees....

...and went deep into the gutter with Brett Kavanaugh just two
years ago.

The Left can preach about "norms" all day long. But their
posturing has worn thin. The Left has never granted our side a
single courtesy. That's why we believe the only deference that
should be given is to the Constitution.

If there's one thing President Trump has taught us, it's that the
first political calculation should always be: what's the right
thing to do?

Let's go.

Brian


P.S. CV has learned that President Trump will deliver remarks at
the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Wednesday. We'll share
updates on Twitter and Facebook as we get them.



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