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Yavin4

(35,442 posts) Sat Feb 13, 2016, 06:35 PM Feb 2016

If Obama can't get a nominee through before his term ends, this raises the stakes of this election

to a new high. It would mean that the next president gets to choose a nominee to the SCOTUS on day one, and will probably get to nominate at least one more during his/her term.