Skip the rest of the article – it’s largely that marvelous combination of sneer/whine that typifies Beltway punditry when things aren’t going their way – and note this:
It is likely, then, that Ginsburg and Breyer will only be replaced by similar mainstream liberals if there is unified Democratic control of the White House and the Senate.
Basically, The Plum Line is trying to convince those two Supreme Court Justices to retire now for the benefit of the cause, and hopefully be replaced by young liberal Justices who will hang on for twenty years. Which is precisely the sort of thing that one does when one is uncertain that one’s Senatorial majority will last beyond… well, effectively, September 2014. If a Supreme Court vacancy happens after that there’s darn little chance that it’d be taken up before before January 2015 anyway. Continue reading The Plum Line is officially alarmed that the GOP will win in 2014/2016.