O’Connor, a Ronald Reagan nominee who retired in 2006, told Fox 10 in Phoenix she disagreed with those calling to wait for the next president. When he died last Saturday at the age of 79, Scalia was the longest-serving justice. Obama has insisted that he will nominate a successor.
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“The Constitution is pretty clear about what is supposed to happen now”, Obama said during the news conference, which occurred at the close of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California.
“Historically, this has not been viewed as a question”. Grassley to just say, ‘Look, we’re not going to confirm anybody this year.’ The reason we’re not going to confirm is we value the court, we don’t want it to be in this political atmosphere.
A Reid spokesman said his remarks were about other federal judgeships, not Supreme Court justices. Obama pledged to pick a replacement “in due time” and challenged Republicans to hold a vote on his nominee.
“There is significant precedent for holding a Supreme Court vacancy open through the end of a president’s term in an election year”, said Sen.
“He was like a father to all of us lucky enough to clerk for him”, one of the former clerks, Lawrence, Kansas-native Kannon Shanmugam, recalled via Twitter following Scalia’s death. The so-called first black president couldn’t bother to personally attend the funeral of the first black justice, who famously secured school desegregation as an attorney in Brown v. Board of Education?
“We’ve got 11 more months of watching damage to this country from a lawless and faithless president, who is eager to travel to Cuba but unwilling even to show up at the funeral of Justice Scalia”, Cruz said, according to reports.
Schumer countered that Republicans are misrepresenting his 2007 speech to justify their current actions.
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If the process does move forward in the Senate, Hatch said he did not believe that a nominee should be filibustered.
