FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2016, file photo, people stand on the steps of the Supreme Court at sunset in Washington. The ideological direction of the Supreme Court is going to tip one way or the other after the election. (Credit: AP) More than 150 years after Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President, declared that “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” the party that he helped to found is hopelessly divided against itself, at least when it comes to appointing a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The issue came to a head last week when Sen.