Aren’t the Democrats hoping to win the Presidency so they can nominate a left-sympathiser judge to the vacancy on the court? They want to do exactly what the Republicans want to do … but it is the Republicans who now have the Senate majority and the Presidency. Tough titties.

And wasn’t it United States Chief Justice John Roberts who (by way of rebuking President Trump irate at a ruling on illegal migrants) and to the applause of the Democrats: “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.”