Richard Scotti
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2/13/2016 3:18:10 PM
---- Updated 2/13/2016 3:22:24 PM
What does Justice Scalia’s death mean for the Supreme Court?“1895 was the last time a Democratic president nominated a justice facing a Republican Senate,” Jeffrey Rosen pointed out in his November 2014 article “The Supreme Court Will Be a Disaster If a Justice Dies During a Republican Congress.” Every time since then, a Democratic president has worked with a Democratic senate. With Obama serving his last year in office, this is a particularly bad time for Democrats. Rosen writes:
Supreme Court nominees are especially likely to be rejected for partisan reasons at the end of a lame-duck presidency. According to the Congressional Research Service, “Opposition to the nominating President played a role in at least 16 of the 34 nominations that were not confirmed. Many of the 16 were put forward by Presidents in the last year of their presidency—seven occurred after a successor President had been elected, but before the transfer of power to the new administration.”
Most likely, the next president will appoint a new judge. Vote wisely.
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