Peter, I don’t think that factoring in the Supreme Court should change the judgment that the Right has more at stake in this election than the Left, for two reasons. First: Republican appointees are more likely to disappoint their sponsors than Democratic appointees are. Second: While there are important exceptions, in general it is true that a conservative majority on the Court would leave liberals free to win policy victories in legislatures, while a liberal majority would make conservative legislative victories impossible.
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Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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