Greg Stohr has an article in Bloomberg Politics's Judicial Review.
The next president will be in prime position to reshape the Supreme Court. Barring an unexpected death or retirement, an unprecedented four justices will be 78 or older come Election Day. That all but guarantees a vacancy, if not several.
Those appointments could transform the closely divided court. Replacement of a liberal justice with a conservative could doom abortion rights and affirmative action and put new curbs on federal power. A shift the other way could overturn the 2010 Citizens United decision, a campaign-finance ruling described as a "grave error" by Democrat Hillary Clinton.
The challenge for the candidates will be getting the attention of apathetic voters. The court hasn’t been a major campaign issue since 1968, when Richard Nixon held himself out as the law-and-order candidate, criticizing pro-defendant rulings issued by the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren.
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