What will happen now with vacant U.S. Supreme Court seat?

Historian Allan Lichtman on the potential political fallout with Trump pushing ahead for Supreme Court nomination.

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25 comments

  1. Keep in mind, the Supreme Court is the highest court in the country, but there are dozen of regional courts and 100s of state courts that the President and the Senate appoint judges to, totalling about 850. But, about a 100 of these were supposed to be appointed by Obama in his last year, yet they weren’t because Senator McConnell held the seats up in case Trump won in 2016. And within the past 4 years, Trump thanks to McConnell have appointed over 200 of all of them, many of which will still be on their benches after Trump and McConnell die. This is why we can’t allow Trump to win in November so that way he can’t appoint almost half of all of the justices/judges in this country and essentially limiting or even taking away the rights of Americans and setting out country back decades due to their conservative political ideologies.

  2. Fill that seat! You’ve been given power and now is the time to flex it!
    Ignore the false narrative democrats are pushing!

  3. The Presidential Election is in less then 2 months. That isn’t enough time to properly vet someone and get all of the Senators (1/3 of whom are up for reelection) together for a vote. Ultimately, either Trump needs to get reelected or Biden will get elected, and in 2021 a new Justice will be put on the Supreme Court.

    1. not in this election where the Dems have tried everything they can to throw a wrench into the election process. Thats what the whole mail in voting thing is about, tie up the system so the candidate with the most lawyers wins, or to delegitimize Trump if he wins again. There can’t be a hung supreme court for that. Imagine if the decision goes to the supreme court and theres only 8 Justices and its split 4/4…thats how civil wars start Jesse.

  4. We need term limits for The House, The Senate, the Courts, and all Governors in this country! It’s the only way to ensure we prevent complicity in our leadership by constantly changing it!

  5. Lol. Trump already picked Amy Coney Barrett for his SCOTUS pick. Why aren’t you.. oh wait, it’s only Sept 21. My comment is early. Oh well.

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