Before nominating someone for an open seat on a federal district court in michigan, the president consults with the senate from michigan who shares the presidential party label. this is an example of

This is an example of "senatorial courtesy".

Senatorial courtesy is a long-standing unwritten, informal, and nonbinding political custom (or protected tradition) in the United States portraying the propensity of U.S. legislators to help a Senate associate in restricting the arrangement to government office of a presidential candidate from that Senator's state.  

Senatorial courtesy permits legislators of a proposed competitor's home state to dislike the chosen one because he or she may "personally obnoxious", or for comparable reasons. It is normal that the various representatives bolster the restricting congressperson's choice to veto the assignment, in order to get a similar courtesy consequently.

glass wants to live in a world of super heroes and villains. he have lived all his life trying to be responsible for the creating the origin story of a super hero; he schemed and caused many incidents (many of them fatal) hoping that someday someone with superpowers would show up and save the day.

he knew himself very much. he saw himself as a villain of a real-life super hero story. he was aware of his strengths (more than smart enough for being manipulative and scheming) and weaknesses (having fragile bones and having to rely on his mind to succeed).