In this article it discusses what political professionals are expecting to be one of the hardest-fought supreme court battles in a generation, the replacement of Justice Scalia. The white house has been calling in favors, asking the President's allies to not hold back in their condemnation of the Republicans for refusing to hold hearings to replace justice Scalia. Immediately following the announcement of Justice Scalia's death, The American Center for Law and Justice, organized a team to examine the backgrounds of potential nominees, and another team to see the Senate's procedural rules. This is going to be the entire progressive movement vs. the entire conservative movement. "Scalia was only dead a couple of hours when the rhetoric was already heated" stated the executive director of FreedomWorks, Curt Levey. Republicans accused Obama of hypocrisy because of when he voted to filibuster President George W. Bush's nomination of Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the court. Also, the law center posted a petition on its website calling for "No SCOTUS Nomination Before Election" which had more than 13,000 signatures by Wednesday morning. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee challenged that with a petition urging senators to confirm a nominee to the court with 500,000 signatures.

I think that this decision is a very important on considering it regards immigration, climate change, gun rights, campaign finance, health care, affirmative action, gay rights, abortion and many more pressing issues. I also think that it is unfair for the Republicans to stall until the election of the next president. President Obama has full authority and capability to choose the next Justice. What if the next president ends up being a democrat too, then this will have all of been for nothing.

This relates to out class content because we have talked about the contrasting views between Republicans and Democrats, and how it effects the government.  And without one judge the court ruling could end up being 4v4 which could definitely cause problems.

In the current election, Hilary Clinton is struggling with voters between the ages of 18-29, but the Jenner's are helping take some weight off her solders. Khloe, Kourtney, Kim, and Kendall all posted a Instagram picture, wearing a Marc Jacobs with Clinton's face on it with a comment #imwithher. Kendall alone has 49 million followers on instagram but to add to that she also tweeted the picture to her 15 million twitter followers. Clinton has also been endorsed by Katy Perry and Lena Durham. She admits that she has some work to do with young people, but she is hoping this will help. This shirt A limited-edition collection from fashion's biggest names, designed to help elect the first woman president of the United States and Democrats from coast to coast.

I feel that this will most definitely bring Clinton's ratings up with the youth, considering the majority of the age group she is struggling with is the age group that would watch shows like "Keeping Up With The Kardashians." Because Sanders is offering things like, free college tuition and legalization of marijuana he does have the youth vote, 83% according to New Hampshire primary exit polls, Hilary needed a move like this and I really thing it will help.

This relates to content in class because, we have been talking about PAC's and how they can really help a candidate and although this endorsement in not considered a PAC they are very similar. And these T-shirts are being sold which could create revenue for Hilary’s campaign. This is also similar to a 527 organization because it is advertising for a candidate to advance political causes.

  

After Senator, Bernie Sanders, beat former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton by 22 percent in the New Hampshire Primary, some of the public suspected foul play and accused the Democratic Party's establishment of going against the will of the people. A petition was created to protest the Democrat's primary process. The petition states that this process is “undemocratic and fundamentally unfair to Democratic primary voters.”  Superdelegates became part of the nominating process to ensure the Democratic party had input on who the nominee is, but now the people are calling into question the judgment of the Superdelegates and whether they are actually taking what the people vote into consideration.

 I think that it is a very good idea for this process to be looked at deeper. It it is defiantly possible that the Superdelegates are hearing the peoples votes and that they are going in one ear and out the other. Because they have the power to choose whichever candidate they want it is perfectly okay for the people to be curious on whether their votes are being taken into consideration.

In class we talked about Superdelegates and how they have a very big influence on who gets chosen to be nominated. We also talked about how they are free to support any candidate for the nomination at the party's national convention and how they see the peoples votes but they can completely disregard them and choose who ever they like the best, which could be seen as corrupt.

In this article it talks about how Republicans are trying to not be as brutal with each other, like they usually are, but instead they are trying to get women votes by showing compassion, and concern for women. In New Hampshire women are playing a big role, and because the majority of New Hampshire men are planning on voting for Trump, the rest of the Republican candidates are chasing after the women votes.

I think that it is a good ideal for these candidates to continue what they are doing. These women could potentially the most critical swing vote for the primary next week. I also feel that Trump should try to appeal to the women, considering four in 10 women said they would never consider voting for him and it has been said that Trump doesn't care about women, and their being equal to women.

In class we talked about how in the 19th century only property owning white men could vote and voting wasn't even an option for women until 1920. Now candidates have to put in a lot of work to get women votes and candidates need to appeal to women voters if they want to win.