A rebuff of Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland could send the wrong message about the court and partisan politics, said Vikram Amar, dean of the University of Illinois College of Law and the Iwan Foundation Professor of Law.
"If a Democrat wins the presidency in November, I suspect Garland might be confirmed by a lame-duck Senate before next January, mostly because anyone that a President Hillary Clinton or a President Bernie Sanders might nominate would be even less acceptable to Republicans than Garland."
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