The body of judge Antonin Scalia of the US Supreme Court is barely cold after his death during a hunting trip and US politicians are bickering over the nomination of his successor. It was after Colbert’s brilliant speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2006.
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“These are responsibilities that I take seriously, as should everyone”, President Obama said. The Senate is not obliged to accept any nominee the president sends its way, but it does have an obligation to consider and vote. But if his seat remains empty when the high court rules on the Texas case, the court could deadlock in a 4-4 tie.
The 79-year-old justice died Saturday while on a quail-hunting trip in Texas.
President Obama should do his job and nominate.
Left looming are a number of key issues before the court impacting Hoosiers, including abortion, religious freedom in the Affordable Care Act and immigration.
You read that right: After decades during which conservatives complained about “liberal judicial activism”, it is now conservatives who are unabashed in undermining progressive legislation enacted by the nation’s elected branches.
“We are in the midst of a presidential election and a vigorous debate within both political parties on the direction of the country, with the election less than nine months away”, Portman said. “It would be a sheer dereliction of duty for the Senate not to have a hearing, not to have a vote”, Leahy said on “State of the Union”. “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice”.
A White House spokesman said we can expect to learn who President Obama will nominate to fill Associate Justice Antonin Scalia’s vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court next week. The president is a Democrat, and the Senate is controlled by Republicans.
Sens. Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton tried to filibuster Samuel Alito’s nomination in 2006. “That is a fact, my friends, whether the Republicans like it or not”. And Democrats in the November elections will only have to defend 10 seats, while Republicans are on the line for 24 seats.
“Let’s get on with it”, said Democrat Bernie Sanders, arguing that the Senate should vote on whoever Obama nominates.
Some pro-life advocates say the Senate must not hold a vote on any Scalia replacement, but instead should wait until a new president takes office. “It is frightening. They are endangering the basic machinery of government”, continued Cuomo, who is considered a potential presidential candidate one day himself. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, a vulnerable incumbent, said in an email to CNN.
In a statement, Sen.
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In 2007, Schumer told the American Constitution Society that the Senate shouldn’t confirm a Supreme Court nominee from President George W. Bush “except in extraordinary circumstances”, adding that the court was “dangerously out of balance”.
