The high court now stands at 5-3 ideologically with conservatives having the majority. - PeteWilliamsNBC
If Roberts, who has voted in the past to uphold the law, sided with the liberals this time, that 4-4 tie would leave the lower court ruling in place, which declared the law invalid., asks the justices to decide whether there's a religious freedom exception to nondiscrimination laws.
One of Ginsburg's closest friends, Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio, reported that a few days before her death, the justice:"My fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed." During the past 45 years, the average time from a president's announcement of a Supreme Court nominee until the Senate votes to confirm is 70 days. Assuming, as he suggested Saturday he intends to do, that would put a confirmation vote in late November or early December.
The process has moved more quickly the in the past. John Paul Stevens took his seat on the Supreme Court just 19 days after President Gerald Ford nominated him in 1975 to succeed William O. Douglas. Sandra Day O'Connor's confirmation followed 33 days after she was nominated by President Ronald Reagan.
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