{"id":26220,"date":"2012-02-08T20:52:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T03:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/yes-its-once-more-everyones-favorite-whats-at-stake-this-coming.html"},"modified":"2012-02-10T22:48:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T05:48:41","slug":"yes-its-once-more-everyones-favorite-whats-at-stake-this-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/yes-its-once-more-everyones-favorite-whats-at-stake-this-coming.html","title":{"rendered":"Yes, it&#39;s once more everyone&#39;s favorite What&#39;s At Stake This Coming &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Yes, it&#39;s once more everyone&#39;s favorite What&#39;s At Stake This Coming Election<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s the perennial refrain each election, sure &#8230; but it&#39;s hard to argue with numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Three SCOTUS justices will turn 80 before the end of the next presidential term: liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg, conservative Antonin Scalia, and perennial swing vote Anthony Kennedy.<\/p>\n<p>So, assuming that the Senate would ever actually approve of a nominee, the next president could well affect the nature of the Supreme Court for decades to come, yada yada yada. So, yes, this could be The Most Important Presidential Election Ever (again).  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F10%2Fscotusjustices-300x168.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2012\/02\/06\/419148\/three-current-supreme-court-justices-will-turn-80-before-the-end-of-the-next-presidential-term\/'>Three Current Supreme Court Justices Will Turn 80 Before The End Of The Next Presidential Term<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn an excellent piece highlighting the impact a second Obama term could have on the federal judiciary, the AP\u2019s Mark Sherman provides an important reminder of what is at stake in this election: The ne&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#39;s once more everyone&#39;s favorite What&#39;s At Stake This Coming Election It&#39;s the perennial refrain each election, sure &#8230; but it&#39;s hard to argue with numbers. Three SCOTUS justices will turn 80 before the end of the next presidential term: liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg, conservative Antonin Scalia, and perennial swing vote Anthony Kennedy. So, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/yes-its-once-more-everyones-favorite-whats-at-stake-this-coming.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yes, it&#39;s once more everyone&#39;s favorite What&#39;s At Stake This Coming &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":153528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/07\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years.html","url_meta":{"origin":26220,"position":0},"title":"Still chatty after all these years","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Mar-21 12:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Stupid Evil Podcast is ... well, it was fun.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;DDtB-SEB Podcasts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"DDtB-SEB Podcasts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/podcasts\/ddtb-seb-podcasts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/still-chatty-after-all-these-years-f7WYuWsxxqQ.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136275,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/06\/and-lo-there-shall-come-another-seb-podcast.html","url_meta":{"origin":26220,"position":1},"title":"And, lo, there shall come another SEB Podcast!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-May-18 2:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an astonishing three years since +Les Jenkins and I did one of his Stupid Evil Bastard podcasts (the biggest takeaway from which was that it had been three years since we previously did it, and that was clearly way, way too long). 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