@TheRickWilson

The interpretive power of justices and judges is negligible relative to the inherent power of constitution conforming and otherwise well-crafted law. McConnell's legacy will be made all but moot by a Democratic Party sweep and a few sessions of hard work.

McConnell has made an atypical and historic blunder in trading control of the senate for a third (sixth) Supreme Court appointment (Justice). The GOP aligned interpretive power of the whole of the judiciary will be minimized by the GOP's lost control over the legislative process.

Judges and justices come and go. Constitution conforming and otherwise well-crafted law can last forever. The failure of congresses and presidents to pass legislation on critical issues has been the travesty and tragedy of recent decades. This trend could and must end.

And it will, unless the GOP continues on its seeming course to try to end our current system of government and replace it with one over which they believe they can exert control. The GOP gave up on persuading people to support it some time ago. They knew this would mean

they wouldn't be in a position to control legislation for long. They denied the Democratic Party judicial seats they latter filled themselves to secure maximum interpretive power over legislation. Now, they've realized the judiciary alone can't provide the power they want.

So, very recently the GOP has starting to talk obliquely about "ordered liberty" (see Mike Lee's recent diatribe about "rank democracy") which is nothing but a ideological "gateway" to the rejection of democracy as the majority of Americans understand and expect it to operate.