This is small ball.  Not sure why the democrats were so neurotic about this since he's merely replacing Scalia who was a rock-ribbed conservative.  The next 1 or 2 are really going to hurt the progressive cause since Kennedy and especially Ruth "Bad Girl" Ginsburg are friendly to progressive causes.  Replacing either of those two will tip the scales way right for at least 2 decades.  Remember our lord and savior Barry Hussein admonishing us that elections have consequences. Well, I guess he was right.