What Now?

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2011 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia participates at the third annual Washington Ideas Forum at the Newseum in Washington. One never knows when the Supreme Court will hand down... FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2011 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia participates at the third annual Washington Ideas Forum at the Newseum in Washington. One never knows when the Supreme Court will hand down its last, often biggest, opinions of the term. But the justices' summer travel schedules make it a pretty safe bet that blockbuster health care and immigration cases will be decided by the end of June. Professor Antonin Scalia, will put his law students through their paces in Innsbruck, Austria. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) MORE LESS
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The political and legal implications of Antonin Scalia’s death are so far-reaching — and the speed with which the political dynamic has intruded on the mourning is so breath-taking — that it truly boggles the mind. Law professor Rick Hasen coolly starts to work through the implications in this post at TPMCafe.

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