We begin today’s roundup with Michelle Goldberg at The New York Times and her analysis of the new age of civic engagement for women:
It’s no secret that American women dislike Trump; a recent poll showed that 57 percent of all female voters disapprove of him, 43 percent strongly. But polls can’t capture the way gut-churning revulsion toward Trump is changing some women’s whole way of being in the world. You see it in the large number of women running for political office and winning. But you also see it in the women, many of them suburban, middle-aged and not particularly radical, who are making political activism the center of their lives.
At USA Today, Senator Diane Feinstein calls for delaying a hearing on Trump’s SCOTUS pick until after the election:
For 18 months, Senate Republicans have conspired with the Trump White House to pack federal courts with radical right-wing judges. They’ve run roughshod over Senate traditions meant to ensure a mainstream judiciary that will follow precedent and adjudicate cases fairly.
Now, facing a second Trump Supreme Court nominee, Republicans want to overturn their own standard, set in 2016, that a nominee shouldn’t be considered during an election year.
While the decision to block Merrick Garland is the most egregious example, Republicans have delayed or denied Democratic presidents their nominees to fill federal judgeships for decades.