Five issues the Supreme Court will be deciding on this term — Quartz

And then there were eight. US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday, leaving the nation’s top court down a member. At least for now—Republican party leaders including president Donald Trump and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, have made clear their plans to move quickly to fill the vacant seat. If they do fill the seat—either before the November election, or between November and the inauguration in January—it would be with a conservative judge, leaving the Supreme Court with a 6-3 conservative majority. That could have implications for the legal system at large, and for the rights of individual Americans....
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