On Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016, the… The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate would have to approve the nomination.
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Howard, former chairman of the state Board of Elections, said he realizes there are different views of Scalia.
The dinner came just hours after Scalia’s death was announced. “He was so amusing she was laughing at everything he said”, Hosemann said of Scalia’s interactions with Kagan during the hunt, which Hosemann attended.
Indian-American judge Sri Srinivasan may be nominated to the US Supreme Court which would make him the first from the community to achieve the feat.
“But at this moment”, Obama said, “we most of all want to think about (Scalia’s) family”.
Scalia while on a weekend trip to Texas.
Here’s everything you need to know about Justice Antonin Scalia, and why his death will be a big deal in November’s election. It will be taken to the Sunset Funeral Home on Hondo Pass in northeast El Paso. She says Rev. Mike Alcuino was summoned from 30 miles away in Presidio to perform the traditional rites on Saturday afternoon. He, too, noted Scalia’s passing and responded to his unexpected death and a vacancy on the nation’s highest court. The nearest town is Shafter, Texas, population 11.
“It’s up to Mitch McConnell and everybody else to stop it. It’s called delay, delay, delay”, Donald Trump said during Saturday’s debate.
Clinton, on the other hand, said, “The Senate has a constitutional responsibility here that it can not abdicate for partisan political reasons”. “The American people deserve to have a fully functioning Supreme Court”, he said, according to The Hill.
The death of Justice Antonin Scalia was the first topic of the Republican debate in SC.
Obama is expected to nominate a replacement for Scalia, setting up a major battle with the Republicans.
Rubio said he would rather see the next administration have a go at a nomination – as long as it’s a conservative presidency.
Bush hit back strongly, saying, “I’m sick and exhausted of Barack Obama blaming my brother for all of the problems” he faces. “There will be plenty of time for me to do so and for the Senate to fulfil its responsibility to give that person a fair hearing and a timely vote”.
Some Republicans, though, were already predicting the job may stay open until a new president takes office. “He was a Justice who did not believe in legislating from the bench”.
President Obama’s candidate could tip the balance of the court 5-4 in favour of liberals.
“The Republicans in the Senate and on the campaign trail who are calling for Justice Scalia’s seat to remain vacant dishonour our Constitution”. He said at the press conference that he fully planned on carrying out his Constitutional responsibility to fill the vacancy.
Clinton is in the midst of a weekend campaign swing through Nevada.
Only two senators abstained from voting, Republicans Jake Garn of Utah and former presidential candidate, Sen.
A Senate looking at a limited legislative agenda in an election year now faces one of the most consequential decisions for the venerable body.
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz tweeted that Justice Scalia was an American hero.
Democrats immediately raised objections.
Under the USA system, the president nominates justices for the nine-member court and the Senate confirms them.
McConnell called Scalia “an unwavering champion” of the Constitution.
“Unless he (Obama) can find a consensus choice, the next president will pick the replacement for Justice Scalia”, said Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican who also sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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A Reagan-era appointee, Scalia was often considered the court’s most vocal conservative voice.
