Justice Scalia’s Death And Implications For The 2016 Election, The Supreme Court And The Nation

Justice Scalia’s Death And Implications For The 2016 Election, The Supreme Court And The Nation
by Rick Hasen
The future composition of the Supreme Court is the most important civil rights cause of our time. It is more important than racial justice, marriage equality, voting rights, money in politics, abortion rights, gun rights, or managing climate change. It matters more because the ability to move forward in these other civil rights struggles depends first and foremost upon control of the Court. And control for the next generation is about to be up for grabs, likely in the next presidential election, a point many on the right but few on the left seem to have recognized.