[TheRealThing]

I think the whole Supreme Court in shambles ideal is not a 5-4 liberal-leaning court. A supreme court in shambles would have been 3 Supreme Court Justices retiring in the next 2 or 3 years for Hillary to replace upon her election. That would have been a nightmare for the Constitutional process.

Absolutely correct in that the nightmare would have been a long term unending saga. However, The same could be said short term even if she'd only been in office four years and appointed only one Justice.

The damage done short term would have not been restricted to Hillary's four years in the Oval Office, it would have been for the lifetime of that particular version of the court. But even if said version was relatively short lived, they could have really upset the applecart. It will not be easy to overturn Roe v Wade or the damage done by the repeal of DADT as things stand. Much less whatever mischief the libs would have rammed through during another 4 year stint with a Dem in the White House and the legion of existing liberal judges continuing to wreak havoc.

Conservative Americans just dodged a howitzer shell.