Reports late Saturday that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, known for his steadfast conservatism and the sarcastic tone of many of his opinions, had been found dead in Texas were quickly followed up on Twitter by speculation as to the future makeup of the high court, with figures on the political right coalescing around the notion that the responsibility for nominating a successor should fall to the next president — with Inauguration Day nearly 11 full months away.
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