Justice Scalia dead

[flogger]

This might have come up earlier, what is the rush to appoint another judge ASAP anyway? Does the Supreme Court have a busy schedule with a big backlog? I don't think so. I CAN imagine some of those cases being fasttracked all of a sudden to step up the appointment for obvious political reasons.

Another thing I found surprising, over 130 SC Justice's have died in office!

Whatever happens, this is going to get interesting/serious.

[Rucker61]

This might have come up earlier, what is the rush to appoint another judge ASAP anyway? Does the Supreme Court have a busy schedule with a big backlog? I don't think so. I CAN imagine some of those cases being fasttracked all of a sudden to step up the appointment for obvious political reasons.

Another thing I found surprising, over 130 SC Justice's have died in office!

Whatever happens, this is going to get interesting/serious.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...p_ref=politics

The concern is that with a tie, the ruling reverts to the lower court decision. That could be deadly if SCOTUS decides to review cases like Friedman vs Highland Park and the New York/Connecticut assault weapons bans.