Trump has had an especially disastrous few weeks since accepting the Republican presidential nomination in mid-July, including his remark Tuesday suggesting violence against Clinton: that "Second Amendment people" could do something about her if, as president, she nominated judges they disagreed with.
We will learn what the worst really means if she is nominated.
Mr. Dodd has expressed doubts about whether Ms. Warren could be confirmed, but has also pledged to support her if she is nominated.
Ms. Theron has a full-time stylist, Lisa Michelle, but the actress had promised Ms. Evans that she could dress her if she were nominated for an Oscar.
If she were nominated to the post it could set off a partisan brawl similar to the battles that nearly swamped the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law Mr. Obama signed in July, which created the bureau.
If she is nominated, the White House will put together a team, led by a political operative, as it did for Mrs. Clinton (a former senator who knew her way around), to help with the confirmation process.
I can't remember if I'm supposed to support him because he's the one who can beat Hillary if she gets nominated, or if I'm supposed to support him because he's legitimately scary.
In 2011, she told a group of law students that she would probably not get onto the high court if she were nominated now: Today my ACLU connection would probably disqualify me.
The most counterintuitive forecast is that Mrs. Clinton is given a better-than-even chance of winning the general election if she is nominated, while Mr. McCain — perhaps because he wants to keep fighting the war in Iraq — is not.
But the senators seemed anything but mollified, signaling instead that they would still oppose Ms. Rice, the ambassador to the United Nations, if she is nominated by President Obama, even after she conceded errors in the account of the assault she gave on Sunday morning television programs shortly after it occurred in September.
