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Major political showdown after Supreme Court Justice Scalia’s death

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The sudden death of 79-year-old Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Saturday has the chance to change the ideological balance of the Supreme Court for a generation. However, Senate Republicans have made it very clear they’ll do anything to prevent that change from happening and won’t approve of Scalia’s replacement until next year.

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