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Originally Posted by BeamOn

Let's say Obama does make an recess appointment. McConnell & Co. go berserk, challenge the constitutionality and the case goes to the Supreme Court. The newly appointed justice must be recused and the vote is a tie. This could get pretty ugly and totally disrupt the upcoming elections. We could be looking at a serious political divide unlike say, Obamacare. A single person or an entity can turn the country upside down.

I don't think the average American is all that caught up with who is on the Supreme Court...
I don't see this as big as Obamacare. The baggers will howl but they have been doing that for five or six years now. The GOP could raise a lot of money off of an Obama recess appointment.....keep the tea bag movement going. But I think the issue would fade away after the election and I doubt it would be the reason why a Democrat lost to say Trump. God forbid.

A recess appointment of a progressive who would uphold his executive actions on immigration would motivate Latinos to show up at the polls however.