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PostSubject: Election will decide ideology of Supreme Court   Election will decide ideology of Supreme Court Icon_minitimeSun Oct 02, 2016 9:09 pm

An evenly divided Supreme Court opens a new term this week with a few dozen mostly low-profile cases. But perhaps the biggest question of the year won't even be settled by the justices.

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Voters next month will effectively decide the court's ideological bent for the next four years and possibly much longer.

Not since 1968 has the court had a vacancy expected to be filled by the winner of a presidential election.

Then, Senate conservatives filibustered President Lyndon Johnson's choice to replace retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren, leaving Richard Nixon to nominate a conservative instead. It was the start of a quarter-century of Republican appointments that steadily moved the court to the right.

Now, with the Republican-led Senate's refusing to consider President Barack Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland, to fill the vacancy created by the death of Antonin Scalia, the court faces the prospect of a shift in the opposite direction.

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/politics/4127781-election-will-decide-ideology-supreme-court
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