Appointment of Supreme Court JudgesName: Course: Professor: Institution: Appointment of Supreme Court Judges Initially, the Senate set the threshold of appointing judges to be 2/3 of the votes. That allowed various judges to have bipartisan support and that indicated that most of the appointees got the jobs on merit rather than political views. Then, the Democrats changed the standard to 51% of the votes so that they could manage to vote their people into the Supreme Court (Seligman, 2018). That meant that during the previous Obama administration, the Senate mostly voted for liberal judges that took a softer stance towards issues of immigration, gun control and same-sex marriage that have...
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