From Bloomberg:
Senators from both parties said the Democratic president should avoid filling the [Supreme Court] vacancy with an “ideologue.”
Allow me to translate: No liberals, please. Roberts and Alito, ideologues, are conservative ideologues, and therefore not ideologues. Are you getting this? It’s easy once you understand how we talk without saying what we really mean.
Here’s more: It is said that conservatives cannot handle nuance. Here is Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) on the coming appointment:
“I think the criteria should be to follow the law, not to make the law.”
Once again, translating: “Don’t upset the existing power structure.”
But the idea that the Supreme Court should “follow the law” is absurd. Cases come before the court because of differing interpretations of the law, which is vastly complex. If “the law” were written down somewhere so we could look it up when we needed to, we wouldn’t need a Supreme Court.
Piece of Mindful 
I thought liberals fixed their little problem by relabeling themselves as progressives thereby giving themselves the liberty to define both the law and its application to fit whatever is currently the consensus mantra of reverse-engineered desired outcome.
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Diagram sentence, please.
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Liberty to define law? How about making law. Here’s one of the liberal frontrunners joking about making law. Very short, don’t blink.
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Nuance:
1 : a subtle distinction or variation
2 : a subtle quality : nicety
3 : sensibility to, awareness of, or ability to express delicate shadings (as of meaning, feeling, or value)
Your reflex reaction equating interpretations of the law that you do not like as “making law” reduces the Supreme Court to a legal textbook. They are all about interpreting, adapting as society grows more complex. Your justices are about interpreting the law as well, but you cannot see it because you like their decisions. All of them refer to both the writings of the founding fathers and the interpretations that have followed in our subsequent 220 years.
Judges, those you like, those I like, deal in nuance. Now, you deal with it.
PS: The fact that you have learned to embed videos in blogs means you are one step closer to having your own blog, where, as you surely know, I would torment you.
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Point well taken.
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