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How Senate Republicans Are Crippling the Supreme Court
Elie Mystal, an editor for Above the Law and the legal editor for WNYC's podcast More Perfect, says that if Hillary Clinton is elected president, Senate Republicans will still not entertain any nominee for the Supreme Court -- still down a justice since Scalia's death -- effectively obstructing the judicial branch of government from doing its job.