Thomas Jipping Heritage Institute’s Deputy Director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and Senior Legal Fellow:

The role of the Supreme Court is just as vital today as it was then. That’s why any vacancy, except in rare circumstances, must be filled promptly. The people on the president’s list have all proven themselves tremendous public servants with a true fidelity to the Constitution. Any one of them would be an excellent choice to serve on the nation’s highest court. The court already has a full docket of important cases to decide for its next term. And those are just the ones we know about today. There’s ample reason to be concerned that we might find ourselves in another Bush v. Gore scenario, where the nation’s highest court needs to settle decisions regarding the next presidential election.