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Unlike US, Europe picks top judges with bipartisan approval to create ideologically balanced high courts

  • Written by David Orentlicher, Professor of Law and Co-Director, Health Law Program, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
imageDemonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 21 called on the Republican-controlled Senate not to confirm a new justice until the next president is in office.Alex Edelman/AFP via Getty Images

Filling Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court immediately sparked a bitter partisan fight.

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