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Next year, four of the nine Supreme Court justices will be at or older than the average retirement age for justices. And yet the subject of Supreme Court nominations has so far received very little attention in either the candidate debates or the media’s larger campaign coverage. In this first installment of a two-part Amicus series on the Supreme Court and the 2016 election, Dahlia speaks with Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean and distinguished professor of law at University of California–Irvine School of Law.

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