I caught just a piece of Rush's show today and he made a very good point. The reason that many democrats and leftists are up in arms about any Trump SCOTUS pick is that they view the Judicial System as a 3rd political arm, not apolitical. For many Conservatives they would like to see someone who is apolitical and interprets the Constitution more rigidly. Leftists want to use the courts to force political change, thus their angst about the SCOTUS. Several are calling for "packing the court" when democrats get full control again and raise the number of supreme court justices to 12 or 14 and fill it with liberal justices like RGB who would throw the power of the court on the side of progressivism.