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There was also a weird period before that, 1968, 1969, 1970, that was like a bermuda triangle for the supreme court. this was after lbj's triumphant nomination of thurgood marshall to be the first african-american supreme court justice. after that things went off course and over the next few years with johnson at the end of his firm and nixon at the beginning of his time as president between them the two of them air balled on four different nominees for the supreme court who were all rejected or forced to withdraw in scandal. but again i think of that as a weird bermuda triangle period in supr...

United states senate confirmed all six of them. that's how we got the very first supreme court and every president since george washington would love to be treated like that, white? they'd love to have everybody confirmed in two days and pick every justice on the court but there will never be another george washington, that said it isn't usually that hard for presidents to get their nominees confirmed speaking as a general matter. in american history the vast majority of supreme court nominees have been confirmed and the vast majority of those confirmed have been confirmed by a lot, by big ove...

Clarence thomas, robert bourque, those were exceptions but that proved the more general rule. if you get to the point where the president is nominating you to be a supreme court justice and the senate is considering your nomination to be a supreme court justice you are likely to get through. look at the justices confirmed in the late 20th century. anthony kennedy, 1987. the vote on him was 97-0. david souter, approved in 1990. the vote on him was 90-9. ruth bader ginsburg, approved in 1993. 96-3. stephen breyer, the following year, his vote was 87-9. that's how the last century ended. overwhel...

1789. there, of course, are benefits to being first. wh george washington got to make his supreme court nomination, he got to nominate six justices all at once. brand new court, got to fill it up. when he made those six nominations in two days the united states senate confirmed all six of them. that's how we got the very first supreme court and every president since george washington would love to be treated like that, white? they'd love to have everybody confirmed in two days and pick every justice on the court but there will never be another george washington, that said it isn't usually that...

Him outside of the mainstream. in his writings and his comments, anything about this nominee that suggests democrats will succeed in saying like bourque, he is, quote, outside the mainstream. >> think certainly will probably try to do that. >> no in the mainstream he is a principle conservative in the mold of scalia. what is interesting he may be more libertarian than scalia and a willingness to check the excesses of the president and congress. gorsuch, more than scalia, has questioned the constitutional underpinnings of the regulatory state from demonstrative progresses. now they want the sup...