Trump Trips Over Himself To Assure Republicans That His Justices Will Be Super Right-Wing

Donald Trump is in an unusual position for a major party’s presumptive nominee. His first task since effectively locking down the nomination is to convince many of his fellow partisans that he is up to the job.

A common refrain from conservative Trump skeptics is that Trump’s biggest flaw is that he may not be conservative enough. As the National Review wrote in an editorial that now stands as a monument to that publication’s impotence, “Trump has shown no interest in limiting government, in reforming entitlements, or in the Constitution.” Trump, however, is behaving like a man who is very much aware of the last of the National Review’s complaints — the one that he is insufficiently committed to a conservative reading of the Constitution — and who is determined to show his fellow partisans that they can trust him to nominate Supreme Court justices that will make his party’s right flank smile, including whoever Trump would nominate to fill the current vacancy on the Court....
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/05/11/3777189/trump-trips-assure-republicans-justices-will-super-right-wing/