Article snippet: The TAKE with Rick Klein Now the chance to remake the Supreme Court for a generation becomes an opportunity for President Donald Trump to further rock the political landscape. Questions for Brett Kavanaugh will hinge less on qualifications and even judicial ideology than they will on partisanship. His central-casting GOP resume gives him powerful friends, but also immense amounts of paper. That includes extensive writings and rulings about executive power, including whether presidents should be subject to civil or criminal litigation at all. The questions Kavanaugh has long pondered, in and out of powerful government positions, are not hypotheticals. The most intense immediate focus will be on two moderate Republicans, either of whom — in the absence of Sen. John McCain — could sink the nomination by herself. Yet, that could happen only if the new nominee loses all of the Democrats. That's where well-funded outside pressure will be applied. That's also where Trump benefits from keeping intact the powerful conservative infrastructure around judgeships — one of the few establishment institutions he did not seek to blow up. The weeks ahead will be about Kavanaugh, and about the causes and the president (yes, one named Bush) he once served. But, as always in this era, the biggest questions are likely to revolve around Trump. The RUNDOWN with MaryAlice Parks The country now has a name and also a sketch of some of the issues Judge Brett Kavanaugh ... Link to the full article to read more