The Supreme Court after Scalia

The abrupt death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia is sending shockwaves through U.S. politics and legal worlds. Writing for the media and cited in analyses by journalists, SSN scholars reflect on the broader implications of this watershed development on the Supreme Court.

Peter M. Shane, Ohio State University, cited in "Senate Must Do Its Job on Supreme Court Nomination" by Sherrod Brown, Cleveland.com, February 28, 2016.

Peter M. Shane, Ohio State University, "Brown Calls on Senate to Move on Filling Scalia Seat," by Heath Harrison, Ironton Tribune, February 25, 2016.

Rick Hasen, University of California, Irvine, "Appoint a Few More Scalias, Kiss Democracy Goodbye," OpEd, Reuters, February 22, 2016. 

Ben Railton, Fitchburg State University, "The Supreme Court Has Always Been Political," OpEd, Huffington Post, February 18, 2016.

Sheldon Goldman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Sara Schiavoni, John Carroll University, and Elliot E. Slotnick, Ohio State University, cited in "The Number of White Dudes Becoming Federal Judges Has Plummeted under Obama," by Max Ehrenfreund, The Washington Post, February 18, 2016. 

Sheldon Goldman, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, cited in “The Brute-Force Politics of Judicial Confirmations,” by Jeffrety Toobin, The New Yorker, February 17, 2015.

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Stetson University College of Law, cited in “Tuesday Round-Up - Part I,” by Andrew Hamm, SCOTUS Blog, February 16, 2016.

Peter Shane, Ohio State University, "How Antonin Scalia Punched Down," OpEd, Washington Monthly, February 15, 2016.

Joseph Blocher, Duke Law School, “Scalia’s Gun Rights Legacy is Likely to Stand, No Matter Who Replaces Him,” OpEd, The Trace, February 15, 2016.

Rick Hasen, University of California, Irvine, cited in “Scalia’s Death Could Doom McDonnell and Hurt Menendez,” by Josh Gerstein, Politico, February 16, 2016.

David Schultz, Hamline University, cited in “Why Do Supreme Court Justices Serve Life Terms?,” by Heather Brown, CBS Minnesota, February 15, 2016.

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, Stetson University College of Law , “What I Hope Dies with Justice Scalia: Toxic Homophobia,” OpEd, Medium, February 15, 2016.

Rick Hasen, University of California, Irvine, cited in “Scalia’s Death Could Have Quick Impact on North Carolina Redistricting Case,” by Anne Blythe, Courier-Tribune, February 15, 2016., 

Rick Hasen, University of California, Irvine "The Battle over Replacing Justice Scalia is Just the Start of a War over the Supreme Court," OpEd, The Washington Post, February 15, 2016.

Peter Dreier, Occidental College, “Nine Battleground States that Could Flip the Senate - and the Supreme Court,” OpEd, The American Prospect, February 14, 2016.

Rick Hasen, University of California, Irvine, "Justice Scalia’s Death and Implications for the 2016 Election, the Supreme Court and the Nation," OpEd, Election Law Blog, February 13, 2016.