President Barack Obama has started to beef up his strategy on nominating a new US Supreme Court Justice to replace the late Antonin Scalia. He has reportedly come up with a short list of people whose backgrounds are currently being checked by the President's team.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia;s death has left an important, controversial question: Should President Barack Obama, in his last 10 months in office, be allowed to appoint a justice who would likely create a liberal majority on the Supreme Court?
In a landmark decision that could determine the shuttering of the affirmative action measures today, CNN said majority of the US Supreme Court voted in favor of upholding a Michigan law that bars publicly-funded colleges to admit students based on racial criteria.