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| Subject: Election will decide ideology of Supreme Court Sun 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.
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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