{"id":60908,"date":"2016-11-10T11:01:21","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T17:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60908"},"modified":"2016-11-10T11:01:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T17:01:31","slug":"a-sign-of-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60908","title":{"rendered":"A Sigh Of Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest relief of the Trump landslide? \u00a0 The SCOTUS. \u00a0If Trump keeps his promise to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/09\/23\/495216645\/donald-trump-unveils-new-more-diverse-supreme-court-short-list\">draw from his list of Supreme Court nominees<\/a>, this nation has at least a hope of having\u00a0a backbone of relative sanity for the next generation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m relieved to see that that was the impetus for an awful lot of voters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The future of the Supreme Court\u2019s ideological balance proved to be a critical factor for many Republican voters. In exit polls, about 1 in 5 voters said the Supreme Court appointments were \u201cthe most important factor\u201d in their decision, and those voters favored Trump by a 57% to 40% margin, according to ABC News.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For me, the Supreme Court &#8211; and keeping Hillary and her owners, George Soros and the Saudis, away from it &#8211; was as close to a single-issue litmus test as I&#8217;ve ever had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest relief of the Trump landslide? \u00a0 The SCOTUS. \u00a0If Trump keeps his promise to draw from his list of Supreme Court nominees, this nation has at least a hope of having\u00a0a backbone of relative sanity for the next generation. I&#8217;m relieved to see that that was the impetus for an awful lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60910,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60908\/revisions\/60910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}