Stewart’s line about how can another administration be more absurd than the Bush administration dated surprisingly badly.

This sounds like a good way to turn an ally against them.

Does Trump have any leverage on Kavanaugh? He played close to the line with the rules to get him appointed for life, but choosing a person likely to be ideologically symathetic is more of a mutually beneficial arrangement than a favour.

It feels like the best way to get someone who is in a secure position of power like that offside is to tell them they have to do what you say or that they owe you. Kavanaugh can just as easily say Trump is disqualified, and never be told he owes anyone again.

Are you a bot? Because that was a rambling word-salad with no discernible point.

Oh, he absolutely should be told to shut his mouth.

The point is the courts have to be a lot more careful about circumscribing a right that has quite strong existing protections versus something that does not.

That’s not comparing the same thing. Beating the crap out of someone is inherently illegal, free speech is not.