By outright rejecting President Obama’s decision to nominate Scalia’s successor in the waning days of his tenure, the Republican Senate leadership threw into stark relief that all parties view the court as an engine created to produce their desired outcomes.
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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. Every person listening to this telecast should contact their senator and urge them not to consider any candidate to replace Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court until the next president has been elected by the American people. Within hours of Scalia’s death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that his caucus should not consider Obama’s yet-to-be-named nominee.
This week, we’d like to ask you: Who would you like to see become the next Supreme Court justice? He did say that it was an “important opportunity” for the president and the first lady to pay their respects to the late justice. “Participate”, Perino said. “He’s going to miss being president of the United States and this is one of those things where you participate and lead”.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, in a Washington Post op-ed on the Republican efforts, said the Founding Fathers “must be rolling in their graves”, while Reid’s expected successor, Sen. That sentiment was echoed by Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The president says he intends to send a nominee to the Senate and urged Republicans to act on it.
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The unexpected death of Antonin Scalia leaves the supreme court with only eight members – and the potential outcomes of several pending cases hanging in the balance. “New Hampshire resoundingly said, ‘We don’t like what’s going on, ‘ and she is staking out a position as a poster child of the status quo”. “So when they talk about Loretta Lynch, I find that less compelling”.
