{"id":20743,"date":"2016-02-14T13:31:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T18:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20743"},"modified":"2016-02-14T13:35:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T18:35:38","slug":"scotusblog-supreme-court-vacancies-in-presidential-election-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20743","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUSblog: Supreme Court vacancies in presidential election years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTUSblog: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2016\/02\/supreme-court-vacancies-in-presidential-election-years\/\">Supreme Court vacancies in presidential election years<\/a> by Amy Howe: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the wake of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, questions have arisen about whether there is a standard practice of not nominating and confirming Supreme Court Justices during a presidential election year.  The historical record does not reveal any instances since at least 1900 of the president failing to nominate and\/or the Senate failing to confirm a nominee in a presidential election year because of the impending election.  In that period, there were several nominations and confirmations of Justices during presidential election years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTUSblog: Supreme Court vacancies in presidential election years by Amy Howe: In the wake of the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, questions have arisen about whether there is a standard practice of not nominating and confirming Supreme Court Justices during &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=20743\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20744,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20743\/revisions\/20744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}