According to the legal definition found online at thefreedictionary.com, the Supreme Court “decides the most important issues of constitutional and statutory law and is intended to provide legal clarity and consistency for the lower appellate and trial courts”. So what happens when the political ideological values of most powerful court in the country becomes askew? Well, that is exactly what happened with the unexpected death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and the effects to the Supreme Court’s decisions since then are highlighted in the New York Times’ article I read titled The Right-Wing Supreme Court That Wasn’t by Adam Liptak.
The article I found in the New York Times mentions that just before Scalia’s death there were an influx of cases which were believed to eventually move laws to a more conservative side, but his death led to a few of the major decisions made to …show more content…
4). Here the author mentions two important factors that will greatly impact the final form of the Supreme Court. First, being that three of the Supreme Court Justices are seventy eight years of age or older and very close to either retirement or death (Supreme Court shifts left, para. 15). Second, that with a seat open and possibly more to open soon, our next President will have a great impact on deciding who will fill the seats which will affect Supreme Courts decisions years to come. The article continues on to describe how the Supreme Court was left hung on multiple issues without Scalia’s vote to break the tie. One particular case that was left hung was a proposal by Obama to prevent up to five million immigrants from being deported (para. 10). Liptak reveals that even though Scalia’s death has had many negative impacts for the Supreme Court there was still a bit of positive that emerged from it. That is, a few of the Supreme
The article I found in the New York Times mentions that just before Scalia’s death there were an influx of cases which were believed to eventually move laws to a more conservative side, but his death led to a few of the major decisions made to …show more content…
4). Here the author mentions two important factors that will greatly impact the final form of the Supreme Court. First, being that three of the Supreme Court Justices are seventy eight years of age or older and very close to either retirement or death (Supreme Court shifts left, para. 15). Second, that with a seat open and possibly more to open soon, our next President will have a great impact on deciding who will fill the seats which will affect Supreme Courts decisions years to come. The article continues on to describe how the Supreme Court was left hung on multiple issues without Scalia’s vote to break the tie. One particular case that was left hung was a proposal by Obama to prevent up to five million immigrants from being deported (para. 10). Liptak reveals that even though Scalia’s death has had many negative impacts for the Supreme Court there was still a bit of positive that emerged from it. That is, a few of the Supreme