The Death of Justice Scalia Puts Presidential Race in a New Perspective

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It appears that the court will continue to decide cases as usual, but for now with only eight justices, until Scalia's replacement is confirmed. The following article confirms this:

Washington (CNN)This Supreme Court term was already set to be a blockbuster and consequential. Justices are considering a major challenge to public sector unions, a race-conscious admissions plan at the University of Texas, the first big abortion case since 2007, challenges to voting rights, the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate and a challenge to President Barack Obama's immigration actions.

Although in some of the cases, the late Justice Antonin Scalia probably indicated to his colleagues in conference which way he was going to vote, those preliminary votes aren't binding and are now void.

Scalia's sudden death over the weekend at a Texas desert resort means the court is facing a new challenge: the loss of its main conservative voice.

"The entire tenor of this term has now changed," said Stephen Vladeck a CNN contributor and a law professor at American University Washington College of Law. "The court can try to go ahead, but on cases where they are split 4-4 , their only options are to leave the lower court decision intact or to hold the case over until Justice Scalia's replacement is confirmed."

Rest of article here: What happens to Supreme Court cases this year?