Is the White House Preparing For Three Supreme Court Vacancies This Summer?
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A lot of press reports have speculated recently about the possibility that there will be two retirements at the Court in coming months. As best I can tell, no one who follows the Supreme Court closely actually thinks it is going to happen. But that doesn’t stop the speculation. In that spirit, I’d like to up the ante. Instead of speculating that there may be two Supreme Court vacancies in coming months, I will henceforth speculate that there will be three vacancies in coming months. That’s right, not one, not two, but three vacancies. What is my evidence that there are going to be three vacancies at the Supreme Court soon? I don’t have any. I just made it up. But since when does that stop people from speculating? The idea is so …
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