I'm a Democrat, I'm a, I voted for Hillary Clinton, but the list is a distinguished list.

And even if the person picked is to the right of Justice Kennedy on some issues, some of them are actually former law clerks,

that would only mean, frankly, from a political science perspective, that the middle of the court shifts to John Roberts.

It doesn't shift all the way to the furthest right person on the court, and that's the new swing justice.

There will always be a swing justice, it's just where that swing happens, and just to remind everyone,

John Roberts is a very good man.

So that's from Hillary Clinton supporter, but Yale law professor and a pretty honest guy in the whole Constitution Supreme Court thing.

A key will read a mar who we've had on the show before and talked about before.

Interesting, I thought, if you took any of the cable news stuff in yesterday, there were a lot of people, Chuck Schumer's from a pre-adained list, whatever that means.

Yeah, Trump has a list that he's going to.

Of extremists.

Of extremists.

There you have Hillary Clinton voter, a professor, a mere right there saying that, no, it's a reasonable list of reasonable people.

Timothy Sandefur is the vice president for litigation at the Goldwater Institute, also the author of Frederick Douglass Maidman, indeed.

And Tim Sandefur joins us. Hello, Tim, are you?

I'm just great. How are you?

Just terrific. Thank you. It's good to have you on.

So we had you on just yesterday talking about the decision that came down and we talked a little bit about the Supreme Court and, and, and, you know,

people stepping down or not stepping down. Then moments later, somebody retires. Oh my God. Oh my God. What does this mean to the makeup of the court?

I don't think it means a great deal. In fact, I agree with professor Amar, which I often do, even though he's on the left.

I, and this is being exaggerated in a lot of places for purposes of, you know, stirring up the pod and creating conflict.

But Justice Kennedy was a fairly reliable conservative vote on most issues, who occasionally would cross over to the liberal judges on social issues.

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