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Professor of politics says presidential appointments are simply a Constitutional question
After the recent passing of well-respected Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the election-year timing of a vacant seat on the highest court in the land has led to the kind of political circus such circumstances are known to produce, but whether or not a sitting president has the authority to appoint the next justice is a question that stands independent of politics.