The Anticlimax of Trump’s Supreme Court Announcement
The president sought to dramatize the selection process, but he ultimately delivered a workaday statement nominating the most conventional candidate on his shortlist.
by David A. Graham
Jul 10, 2018
3 minutes
It’s been a summer of anticlimax on the courts.
In June, after riveting, hard-fought playoffs, the Golden State Warriors rolled over the Cleveland Cavaliers on the basketball court, in a snoozer of an NBA Finals. Monday night, something analogous happened for the highest court in the land. After a lengthy lead-up, into which Donald Trump injected as much drama as he possibly could, the president landed on the most conventional pick possible.
In to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy on the
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