Antonin Scalia’s Death Jolts the 2016 Presidential Race
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The death of Justice Antonin Scalia immediately shook up the 2016 presidential race, inserting a new issue for the candidates to use to draw contrasts with one another.
Several candidates — three of whom are sitting senators — sent quick condolences and had already staked their ground on the question of what President Obama and the Senate should do about Justice Scalia’s replacem
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