[identity profile] graydon saunders (from livejournal.com) 2016-02-15 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
Remember that there's a lot of EPA regulation getting to the Supreme Court soonish. There's a lot of material consequence[1] riding on the composition of the court, since Congress is paralytic and not doing anything about climate change.

This particular appointment fight is unlikely to be about purely cultural issues.

[1] billions and billions of dollars, but that's not really an adequate descriptor