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U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats are making it plain: They don’t want Judge Neil Gorsuch to take a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Oh, my.<\/p>\n

What these folks do not seem to understand — or choose to ignore<\/em> — is this simple point: Judge Gorsuch’s confirmation to the nation’s highest court will not tilt the court’s ideological balance one tiny bit from where it was when the late Antonin Scalia served on it.<\/p>\n

Not one bit. Not one iota.<\/p>\n

Scalia, who died a year ago, was a conservative jurist, and an iconic<\/em> one at that. Gorsuch is a conservative jurist. Yet we hear Democrats, such as Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, declare his intention to all he can to block Gorsuch’s confirmation; that includes a “filibuster,” Blumenthal said.<\/p>\n

Give me a break, man!<\/p>\n

This fight is unwinnable. Gorsuch will need 60 votes in the Senate to be confirmed; if it appears he’ll fall short of the magic number, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, will change the rules to allow a simple majority to confirm Judge Gorsuch.<\/p>\n

So, what’s the big deal? Gorsuch at worst<\/em> will mirror Justice Scalia’s view of the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n

Democrats need to sharpen their long knives — and then put them back in their scabbards and save them for when it really matters.<\/p>\n

Such as when a liberal<\/em> justice leaves the court. That’s when the court’s ideological balance becomes the defining issue.<\/p>\n

Not this time.<\/p>\n\n

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