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Bernie Sanders

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(4,695 posts) Wed Feb 17, 2016, 10:43 AM Feb 2016

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-02-15/republicans-are-already-tearing-each-other-apart-over-scalia-successor-fight

snip

While Scalia's death at age 79 raises the Supreme Court stakes for the election, they remain jarringly high even if Obama manages to fill the vacancy. As of Election Day, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be 83, Justice Anthony Kennedy will be 80, and Justice Stephen Breyer will be 78.

I hope Obama can use Executive Orders to cover for the 4-4 SC decisions.