Trump’s Supreme Court justice should be shunned
By J. Stephen Clark, contributor - 11/14/16 04:33 PM EST
Donald Trump will get to fill a Supreme Court vacancy that should not exist. It persists only because of outlandish ideological obstruction by Senate Republicans. That obstruction will now taint the eventual appointee, whom the legal community should shun after confirmation.
The vacancy could easily have been filled this year. It arose from Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, which happened in February. The Senate had plenty of time to confirm a successor before the Court's next annual term began in October.
Of course, politics, not time, prevented the confirmation of a successor. Senate Republicans saw a chance to obstruct it in hopes that a Republican would win the presidential election. It made no difference that President Barack Obama had extended an olive branch by defying his base to nominate a centrist Democrat, whom Republicans had previously praised.
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