Thursday was a rough day for @realDonaldTrump --who needs new WH Counsel, tough, credentialed AG ASAP-- and for @SenateGOP, dysfunction over judicial nominees b/c of @JeffFlake and tied up on verge of approving a base-enraging #FirstStepAct.
The @SenateGOP thus is on the verge of getting exactly wrong their message from voters in winning a bigger Senate majority which was: Confirm more judges, stay tough on crime and national security; combat fentanyl outbreak, border issues like human trafficking.
The @SenateGOP will be haunted by #FirstStepAct for many cycles as early release for dealers/sex criminals becomes a recurring headline, and @JeffFlake is, astonishingly, going to make cruelty/indifference to originalist judicial nominees define his leaving and thus his tenure.
