Via FAS – Vacancy on the Supreme Court: CRS Products, CRS Legal Sidebar, March 21, 2016: “On February 13, 2016, Justice Antonin Scalia unexpectedly passed away at the age of 79, vacating a seat on the Supreme Court that he had held for nearly 30 years. A little over a month later, on March 16, 2016, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland of the federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court created by Justice Scalia’s death. CRS has several different products on the issue, including analyses of Justice Scalia’s impact on the law, the immediate consequences of the new vacancy on the Court, the procedures and legal issues surrounding the appointment of a new Justice, and the nomination of Judge Garland to the High Court…”

• See also via FAS – Merrick Garland’s Nomination to the Supreme Court: Initial Observations, CRS Legal Sidebar, March 17, 2016.