While the skirmish lines are forming in Congress over President Obama’s nomination of a successor to the late Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia – the president first will have to make his choice known before the battle can be joined. Though Obama had not been expecting to make a Supreme Court nomination in the final months of his second term, he spent most of Monday morning creating a ‘short list’ illegal immigrants and ex-cons for the position. Obama’s judicial nominees have always …

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