Guardian: The death of Antonin Scalia on Saturday, at the age of 79, created an opening on the US supreme court.
Paying tribute to Scalia, President Obama said he would nominate a successor. In the Senate and on the campaign trail, however, Republicans said they would not cooperate, even to the extent of scheduling a nomination hearing in the upper house they control, at any point in the presidents final year in office.
We could be in for a year or more with only eight justices on the supreme court,...