The death of Justice Antonin Scalia continued to define and complicate the work of the U.S. Supreme Court last week as the justices, evenly split, were unable to resolve a major labor unions case and sought a path to get around a tie vote in a religious challenge to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptives mandate.
The sharp display of the court’s divisions came against the backdrop of the political turmoil over confirming a successor to Scalia. The president’s pick, Merrick Garland, last week had his first in-person meeting with a Republican senator, Mark Kirk, who supports confirmation hearings and a vote. Still, GOP leadership remained intent to block any movement on Garland’s confirmation. Kirk, an Illinois Republican, described as “closed-minded” the position that some Republicans have taken in refusing to meet with Garland, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
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