Prawno-polityczny spór wokół wyboru sędziego Sądu Najwyższego USA po śmierci Antonina Scalii

The article aims at analyzing legal and political sources, as well as consequences of the current confl ict between President Barack Obama and Republican Senators over the vacancy in the Supreme Court after the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. The Republican Party fears that the nomination made by Democratic president will shift the Court to the left, which, considering active judicial review by the Court, will have a crucial meaning for social, political and economic relations in the country. The article defi nes legal and political relations between the executive and legislative departments in the context of Supreme Court appointments, leading to fi ndings concerning possible solution to the confl ict and facing the problem of politicization of constitutional courts.