The Five Biggest Issues Facing the New Ninth Justice

By Paul Barrett and Allison Hoffman, BloombergBusinessweek

In the first half of 2017 a new justice nominated by President Trump is likely to join the Supreme Court, which has been split 4-4 since the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia last February. Scalia was known as a social conservative, but he also led 5-4 pro-corporate majorities in a series of major rulings. With several cases of concern to businesses, consumers, and employees pending, those precedents now seem secure. “It’s not so much what the rule of law is,” says Mark Chenoweth, general counsel of the Washington Legal Foundation, a free-market ...