The Democrats are girding for all-out war to block the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court justice, but they may as well save their energy. The two most problematic votes in the senate – Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins – have been making positive statements about the nominee, leading to the conclusion that his confirmation is almost a lock. Politico: The centrist GOP senators offered few hints on Tuesday about how they will vote on Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.  But it's clear that Trump could have made confirmation in the narrowly divided Senate much more difficult if he had picked someone like 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Amy Coney Barrett or another equally conservative nominee. "Let's put it this way: There were some who have been on the list that I would have had a very, very difficult time supporting, just based on what was already publicly known about them," Murkowski (R-Alaska)...(Read Full Post)