The story begins:

With the possibility that Republicans could take the Senate in November, the White House and Senate Democrats are working swiftly to confirm judges to the federal courts in an effort to allow President Obama to leave a lasting liberal imprint on the judiciary.

How could such an article not even mention the Justice Ginsburg retirement controversy? The issue is therefore not only that there could be a Republican president in 2016 who could appoint a conservative in Justice Ginsburg’s place to solidify the position of conservatives on the Court. It is that an Obama replacement of Justice Ginsburg in 2015 or 16 might end up being not as liberal as someone who could get through the Senate before the 2014 elections.