President Trump’s third Supreme Court pick will bring America to existential crossroads

Huffington Post ran a story headlined "Apocalypse Now" with a picture of a coat hanger, which is meant to be a suggestion that without the right to kill their children in clinics they'll simply DIY. Leftists have already ramped up their rhetoric with calls for "revolution", "court packing" and to "burn it down".

Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Lindsey Graham, said the Republican majority Senate will confirm the President's nomination before the election, which is their constitutional right.

Democrat demagogue Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued on Twitter that Ruth Bader Ginsburg should be granted her dying wish to not be replaced until a new president is installed. 2024 seems like a long time to have a vacant SCOTUS seat, so it's fortunate that Justices don't own their seats and can't bequeath them in their wills or control them beyond the grave. That would be unconstitutional.

It's the role of the President to nominate and the Senate to confirm or reject.

There have been nine seats on the Supreme Court since the Judiciary Act of 1869. It's interesting that of the current eight justices:

• Two were appointed by President Trump (Kavanaugh & Gorsuch)
• Two were appointed by President Obama (Kagan & Sotomayor)
• Two were appointed by President G.W. Bush (Roberts & Alito)
• One was appointed by President Clinton (Breyer, as well as RBG, now deceased), and
• One was appointed by President G.H.W. Bush (Thomas).

That's five Republican appointments with one more likely, and three Democrat appointments. John Roberts is barely right of centre and has drifted slowly to the left in recent decisions, which means conservatives can only really expect four of the current eight to support their preferred outcomes. Trump certainly saved America from a 'progressive' SCOTUS, but the important work to secure the constitution for a few more decades is not yet done.

It is imperative President Trump, Republicans and right-thinking voters let nothing stop them from conserving the integrity and independence of the powerful Supreme Court of the United States with an originalist, non-activist justice at every available opportunity.