Republicans have vowed not to accept any nomination to the Supreme Court from President Obama, whose term is nearing its end.
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Rival GOP candidate Ted Cruz said nominating someone now wouldn’t “be fair to the nominee”.
Republicans and Democrats are divided on the issue of when a new justice should be appointed or if President Obama should even attempt to appoint a new justice during an election year; however, in the case of a tie vote, the Court can not make effective and active decisions on cases, allowing the lower court decisions to stand.
“I want another Scalia”, said Bernard, a reading specialist.
Since Scalia’s death last Saturday in Texas, the burning question in Washington has been who is populating President Obama’s short list of potential nominees to replace Scalia’s seat on the nation’s highest court.
“The president’s team, over the course of this week, has spent a lot of time preparing materials for the president’s review, and I would expect, over the weekend, that the president will begin to dig into the materials that have been prepared for him”, Earnest said.
Obama is expected to look closely at a number of appeals court judges, including some who meet Biden’s benchmark. Washington Archbishop Cardinal Donald Wuerl spoke briefly as did Leonard Leo, executive vice president of the conservative Federalist Society, and fellow Justice Clarence Thomas.
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited the court Friday afternoon, bowing their heads near Justice Scalia’s casket and pausing in front of a portrait of the justices.
The Republicans senators said they don’t think that “the American people should be robbed of this unique opportunity”. “Because it’s bigger than that”. George W. Bush delivered the eulogy for conservative justice William Rehnquist in 2005, but the last justice to die in office before that was Robert H. Jackson in 1954.
But Collins added a little more to that when she told an audience in Maine Wednesday that once a nominee put forward senators “should carry out our constitutional duty”, according the Portland Press Herald.
“The Senate gets to have a say. That is very different than saying every nominee receives a vote”.
“When there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court, the president of the United States is to nominate someone”, he said. 28% of Democrats approved of his time on the court while 42% disapproved.
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“The division in this country has just gotten to be intolerable, on both sides… and I think he was a steadying force, and I think he was just”, he said.
