Just a quick tidbit about Bill Pryor—I don’t think it affects anything of substance in the post, but it’s worth noting. As the A.G. of Alabama he got Roy Moore’s back throughout the federal court proceedings over the Ten Commandments monument, but after the Federal Court handed down the decision that the monument had to be removed, Moore and Pryor had a pretty nasty split (Pryor thought the court ruled wrongly but Moore should comply with the ruling anyway; Moore of course decided to defy the court order). After the split, Pryor went on to lead the prosecution of Moore in Alabama’s Court of the Judiciary, which ended up in Roy Moore being thrown out of the state Supreme Court. There was enough bad blood between them over the whole affair that a lot of Moore’s supporters have actually joined the campaign to block Pryor’s nomination(s)—which has got to be one of the most impressive cases of politics making for strange bedfellows in recent history.