Joe Biden managed to mention it in the waning moments of the vice presidential debate - "Keep your e

Joe Biden managed to mention it in the waning moments of the vice presidential debate - "Keep your eye on the Supreme Court," he said - but when America is in campaign mode, we tend to avert our eyes from this subject. Candidates rarely talk about the future composition of the court, apparently out of fear that they will be accused of politicizing the august institution.
The five justices who make up the court's conservative majority were nominated by Ronald Reagan and the Bushes. The other four were chosen by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. The resulting ideological divide is so obvious that I need not describe it.
Inexplicably, the presidential candidates don't talk about how they would shape an institution that has the final say on the law governing international student travel our laws. And the stakes in this election could not be more evident. If Ginsburg were to leave, voluntarily or otherwise, during a Romney administration, her replacement international student travel would likely be a conservative, thus giving us the most rightward court since the early days of the New Deal.
As Biden said during the debate last week, "The next president will get one or two Supreme Court nominees. international student travel That's how close Roe v. Wade is" to being overturned. And abortion is hardly the sole battleground. The court is the final stop for all the hot-button issues - affirmative action, gay marriage, immigration - and it sets the rules for our conduct of politics. Take the 2010 Citizens United decision, which allows billionaires to spend limitless sums on negative ads in the name of free speech.