President Obama nominated Merrick Garland, a federal appeals court judge, to the Supreme Court in March 2016, a month after the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia, who was personally connected with many rich and conservative people and the leader of five conservative justices who often voted together to make conservative decisions. The refusal of the Senate to process Obama’s nomination of federal judges and particularly a Supreme Court justice nominee in 2016 indicates that we are moving in the direction of an autocratic government.
