Trump and Lindsey Graham

The South Carolina senator has reasons to back the President.

Some media folk and leftist politicians have lately been wondering aloud why Sen. Lindsey Graham, who harshly criticized rival presidential candidate Donald Trump prior to the 2016 election, now often supports the President.

Given that Mr. Graham is the new Republican chairman of the Senate judiciary committee and Mr. Trump has worked with the Senate to seat a full 85 federal judges plus two Supreme Court justices of the caliber of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh—and also managed along the way to marginalize the political...