The big reveal“OUR country is going to be Venezuela,” Donald Trump said over the summer, if Hillary Clinton gets to nominate Supreme Court justices. Her picks will be “so far left,” Mr Trump said, that America will slide into socialism. For her part, Mrs Clinton says the Republican nominee’s Supreme Court appointments would threaten the “future of our planet”, among other things. Melodramatic campaigning is nothing new, and the Supreme Court is an issue every four years. But with Republicans in the Senate refusing to consider Barack Obama’s choice of Merrick Garland to fill the late Antonin Scalia’s seat—and the remaining eight justices divided and a bit flummoxed in the meantime—this go-round is different. Change is coming, in one direction or another.
Both camps say that the next president could appoint as many as four justices (Mr Trump once said five), including a replacement for the very conservative Mr Scalia. These predictions are a rather morbid nod to demographics: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the longtime leader of the court’s left wing, is 83. The slightly less liberal Stephen Breyer is 78, and...Continue reading
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