{"id":9684,"date":"2016-02-15T12:20:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T17:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=9684"},"modified":"2016-02-15T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T17:21:42","slug":"how-the-supreme-court-will-handle-decisions-with-scalia-gone-and-only-eight-sitting-justices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/how-the-supreme-court-will-handle-decisions-with-scalia-gone-and-only-eight-sitting-justices\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Supreme Court will handle decisions with Scalia gone and only eight sitting justices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9685\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9685\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/supreme-court-justices.jpg\" alt=\"supreme court justices 2010\" width=\"550\" height=\"425\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/supreme-court-justices.jpg 550w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/supreme-court-justices-225x174.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/supreme-court-justices-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Outside the Beltway<\/figcaption><\/figure>With Antonin Scalia gone from the Supreme Court, there will be only eight justices until his replacement is nominated and confirmed. If the court splits 4-4 over a decision, the lower court ruling will be upheld without new precedent being set. <\/p>\n<p>Scalia wasn&#8217;t completely anti-environment but he did effectively weaken several important environmental protections during his term. His absence makes it less likely that Pres. Obama&#8217;s Clean Power Plan will be aggressively challenged. <\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eenews.net\/stories\/1060032374\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Antonin Scalia gone from the Supreme Court, there will be only eight justices until his replacement is nominated and confirmed. If the court splits 4-4 over a decision, the lower court ruling will be upheld without new precedent being set. Scalia wasn&#8217;t completely anti-environment but he did effectively weaken several important environmental protections during &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/how-the-supreme-court-will-handle-decisions-with-scalia-gone-and-only-eight-sitting-justices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How the Supreme Court will handle decisions with Scalia gone and only eight sitting justices&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,5,563],"tags":[2307,2308,2306,1914],"class_list":["post-9684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-government-trade","category-justice","tag-8-justices","tag-decisions","tag-scalia","tag-scotus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9689,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9684\/revisions\/9689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}