2016年春节刚过,美国最高法院斯卡利亚大法官辞世的消息就刷爆了中国法律人的微信朋友圈。然而,斯卡利亚尸骨未寒,民主与共和两党就开始为填补他的席位展开激烈的政治交锋与争夺。由于联邦法官任期终身,斯卡利亚之死反而为奥巴马提供了留下政治遗产的最后机会。1986年,里根总统任命知天命之年的斯卡利亚出任大法官,意在用斯卡利亚的生花妙笔来推进保守派的司法革命。而现在斯卡利亚撒手人寰,那曾将他送到 Just after the Spring Festival in 2016, the news of the death of Justice Sarkaría of the Supreme Court of the United States broke the WeChat circle of Chinese legal persons. However, Scalia bones are not yet cold, Democratic and Republican parties began to fill his seat in the fierce political confrontation and competition. Due to the lifetime of federal judges, the death of Scalia provided the last chance for Obama to leave political legacy. In 1986, Scalia, President Reagan’s appointment of the year of fate, served as chief justice, aiming to promote the conservative judicial revolution with Scalia’s brilliant pen. And now Scalia shed his hand and sent him there