Rick Hasen - Wake Up Progressives 2016 election is all about SCOTUS

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=87734

"Multiple Supreme Court appointments in the next few years likely. I still expect if Clinton wins and Democrats retake the Senate, that the Republican Senate under McConnell will confirm Garland in the lame duck session of Congress (unless Obama withdraws the nomination, which I don’t expect). Why would he do this? Garland is older and more moderate than a likely Supreme Court nominee from Clinton. But even if that seat is filled, I expect Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, or both to go within the first two years of a Clinton presidency if there is a Democratic Senate in 2016. In 2018, there’s a very good chance Republicans will retake control of the Senate and block and further Supreme Court nominees. So there is a small window. The Supreme Court has had at least 5 (mostly) conservative Justices since the end of the Warren Court. From the 1970s on, we’ve had conservatives making decisions on the most important factors in American life. And now, all the conservatives on the Court are Republican-appointed and all the liberals are Democratic-appointed. This election may matter for up to a generation for control of the Supreme Court".