text:  sort of bristled at this and claimed that it was alarmist and insisted that he was fighting factionalism. His big concern was that presidents would prosecute their rivals. And here he felt he was defending nonpartisan legitimacy against overheated dissents. The dissenters view things entirely differently. Interesting that for people who might look at these headlines and say an ideological divide on the Supreme Court sounds like another Monday. You're saying, no, this isn't what we see all the time. This is different.