My first reaction to the death of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13 was fear. Was it the fear that Obama would get a liberal replacement on the Court? Or the fear that the political fight over the vacancy would hurt Republicans in November? I don’t know. Because the next thought I had was that the Republican Senate would never consent to an Obama nominee in this election year. So when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that “the American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice,” he was merely confirming what I had already intuited. Any Republican senator voting for an Obama Supreme Court nominee would face the end of his career. Period. Now pundits are talking about various approaches President Obama might take to nominating a successor. He might nominate a stick-it-in-the-eye liberal. Or he might nominate a Republican nominee that Republicans would find it hard to vote against....(Read Full Article)