Do Supreme Court Justices Need Litmus Test?

By Kimberly Robinson, Bloomberg BNA

The executive branch isn’t the only thing on the line during the 2016 Presidential election. The judiciary — in particular the U.S. Supreme Court — is too, panelists said at a Nov. 12 Federalist Society event.

According to its website, the Federalist Society is a “group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order.”

During the next president’s first term, four justices — Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsburg — will be in their 80s, CBS News political correspondent Jan Crawford said.

But some ...