Hillary Clinton will likely have a unique chance to remake the federal judiciary

Hillary Clinton will likely have a unique chance to remake the federal judiciary
Updated by Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias matt@vox.com Aug 22, 2016, 10:00a


Hillary Clinton has the capacity to do something that almost never gets discussed in the campaign: change the ideological landscape of the federal judiciary for a generation. It could be one of the defining features of her legacy.

In part, that will be a consequence of getting to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left open by Antonin Scalia — creating the first progressive Supreme Court majority in decades and opening the door to much more expansive efforts at progressive legal advocacy.

But it more subtly reflects a Clinton administration’s likely impact on lower courts.

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