[20201001]IN11514_总统选举年（1789-2020年）出现的最高法院空缺.pdf

CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress INSIGHTINSIGHTi i Supreme Court Vacancies That Occurred During Presidential Election Years (1789-2020) October 1, 2020 The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on September 18, 2020, created a vacancy on the Supreme Court during a presidential election year. This is the 14th such vacancy on the Court that has occurred during a presidential election year from 1789 to 2020 and that also occurred prior to the election date itself. Information and analysis related to these 14 vacancies are presented below. The following election-year vacancies on the Supreme Court fall outside the scope of this Insight: (1) four vacancies that arose during presidential election years but occurred after the general election date; (2) eight vacancies that arose during the year prior to a presidential election year and still existed, for at least some period of time, during the election year itself; (3) two anticipated future vacancies on the Court that occurred in 1968 (i.e., vacancies that did not exist when President Johnson submitted nominations to the Senate); and (4) six initial vacancies on the Court when it was first established by Congre