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What’s Behind the Struggle Over the Supreme Court

An unprecedented fight over judicial power is taking place on Capitol Hill as part of fierce partisan opposition to President Donald Trump, legal experts said Tuesday at a gathering of conservatives in Washington.

“The conflict over judicial appointments has always been a conflict over judicial power,” Thomas Jipping, senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, said.

“The framers of our Constitution designed the judiciary to work a certain way, and the conflict in the last 50, 60 years has been whether to keep or reject a design that they gave us,” he said at the leading think tank’s annual President’s Club meeting.

The conflict can be seen in Technicolor given the unprecedented amount of opposition Trump has encountered in nominating judges for federal courts, said Jipping, also deputy director of Heritage’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.

Read the full story from The Daily Signal


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