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Mike Hendricks

Mike at Night

Mike Hendricks recently retires as social science, criminal justice instructor at McCook Community College.

Scotus and the Democrats

Friday, July 6, 2018

I’ve been teaching and writing for 30 years about the most important function the President of the United States has is to make Supreme Court nominations. It’s his most important job for two major reasons. First of all, any person appointed to the Supreme Court serves for life. Presidents only serve for a maximum of two terms or eight years. So the President’s legacy will serve much longer than he did through the Constitutional interpretation of his nominee. Secondly, through interpreting the Constitution, they are making law that everyone in the country has to follow and doing it much more frequently and easily than Congress ever can.

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