Who President Obama May Nominate To The Supreme Court

President Barack Obama plans to select a successor to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Saturday, despite the fact that Republicans have already vowed to block Obama’s nomination until the next president assumes office.

Such a lengthy vacancy on the court would likely preserve the status quo in a number of high-profile cases this term, including those affecting the issues of affirmative action, immigration, abortion access and possibly even the president’s climate regulations. It would also leave in legal limbo countless other cases Scalia and his clerks have worked on this term.

Whomever Obama nominates will almost certainly be facing a long, drawn-out battle with near zero odds of confirmation in the Senate, making prospective nominees even harder for the administration to find. But there are some potential names currently considered to be on the president’s shortlist.

CNN legal analyst and New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin has his money on Judge Sri Srinivasan of the D.C. Circuit Court. Obama fought to appoint the 47-year-old native of India to a seat on the powerful U.S…READ MORE