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States pick judges very differently from US Supreme Court appointments

  • Written by Joshua Holzer, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Westminster College
imagePolitical pressure is focusing on the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court.Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images

The future of the U.S. Supreme Court is politically fraught.

The court’s partisan balance has long been a hot-button issue, and both Democrats and Republicans can correctly claim that the other party bears at least some blame for the politiciza...

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