The Supreme Court did not reveal the cause of death.
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Commenting to The New York Times, Chief Justice John Roberts applauded Scalia’s “transformative legal theories”, and “outsize personality”, and called him a “leader of the conservative intellectual renaissance”.
Spokeswoman Donna Sellers said he had retired for the evening and was found dead on Saturday morning after not showing up for breakfast.
The candidates’ responses echoed that of leaders in the Senate who suggested President Obama should wait and let the next president nominate a replacement.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. “It is to be interpreted as originally meant”.
There was more than partisan rancor on the minds of Republicans: Democrats would likely be pleased to see Obama name a replacement, which would tip the balance of the nine-member court in favor of liberals after several years favoring conservatives by a 5-4 majority. “Get over it”, Scalia would famously say at speaking engagements in the ensuing years whenever the topic arose. She was confirmed 96-0 in April 2013.
Kasich has received attacks in SC, mostly from Jeb Bush and his allies, on his decision to expand Medicaid in OH and on his advocacy in Congress for scaling back areas of military spending he viewed as wasteful. “I’m not always successful”.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott also paid tribute, saying in a statement: “Justice Antonin Scalia was a man of God, a patriot and an unwavering defender of the written Constitution and the rule of law”. “This faux judicial restraint is judicial obfuscation”, Scalia said. Elaine and I send our deepest condolences to the entire Scalia family.
Following is the full text of remarks from President Barack Obama on Saturday on the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Scalia’s writing seemed irrepressible and entertaining much of the time.
Appointed by Democratic presidents, associate justices Mrs Ginsburg, 82, Sonia Sotomayor, 61, Stephen Breyer, 77, and Elena Kagan, 55, make up the court’s liberal wing.
“We want a strong executive for sure”, Bush said.
A challenge to a Washington, D.C., gun ban gave Scalia the opportunity to display his devotion to textualism. “Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem”. Most recently, in December, he came under fire from civil rights attorneys and black lawmakers after suggesting African-American students might fare better in a “slower-track school” while hearing a case about race-based admissions. In recent years he wrote some blistering dissents to landmark cases, like the recent decision in June that affirmed same-sex marriage rights nationwide.
Scalia’s sudden death could serve as a reminder of the consequences of elections. Voters will decide in November whether to hold the course or allow the court to change direction. That same year, Scalia surprised some people with a public declaration of independence from his Roman Catholic church on the death penalty.
Scalia also supported free speech rights, but complained too. Further, it would be a serious question of whether it’s constitutional for the Senate blocked all of Obama’s nominees, because it would effectively be taking away his power to nominate people to the Supreme Court.
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He betrayed no uncertainty about some of the most contentious legal issues of the day.
