One year ago, Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly on a hunting excursion to Texas. That same day, in the early stages of a presidential campaign, the Republican leadership in the U.S. Senate announced that it would refuse to consider or confirm any replacement for Scalia until after President Barack Obama’s successor took office in January 2017.
Leading up to election day in November 2016, the mainstream media was portraying that the election of Hillary Clinton as the nation’s first female president was all but a certainty. Talk about your fake news! It turns out that you actually have to turn out to vote in order for the political pundits’ predictions to come true. Although I am reluctant to speculate that long-term conservative control of the U.S. Supreme Court will be the most significant legacy of the Trump presidency, it surely could be among the most important.
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