But Republicans have slammed Obama for not attending the funeral of the longtime conservative justice, interpreting it as a sign of disrespect to someone who was often at odds with the president.
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For Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to say the vacancy should not be filled until a new president is elected is preposterous. Of course, the Republican Senate will not approve the nominee, opening the door for the next president to nominate Obama.
The 79-year-old judge was reportedly in poor health with a “history of heart trouble and high blood pressure”, the New York Times said. One Republican even suggested the President should nominate a candidate from his state.
The American public is deeply riven along – wait for it – partisan lines when it comes to whether or not the Senate should hold a vote to confirm a replacement for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
Srinivasan is considered to be among the Obama administration’s leading candidates for a Supreme Court nomination.
The trip, the Washington Post reports, was a gift from the ranch’s owner, who just past year obtained a favorable result from the Supreme Court.
“Land makes up the largest portion of property that rural land owners own, and he was a strident upholder of property rights, as well as the Second Amendment, which is important to rural landowners”, said Roger McEowen, agriculture law and taxation specialist at CliftonLarsenAllen. Obama will attend Scalia’s Friday wake. For example, Justice Kennedy was nominated by President Reagan in November 1987 and confirmed 97-0 on February 3, 1988, by a Democratic-controlled Senate during a presidential election year.
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Ted Cruz, who are running for the Republican nomination for president, said Wednesday night during a CNN town hall in SC that they would not nominate replacements to the Supreme Court if they were in Obama’s position. Who would Obama most like to see take that Supreme Court seat? Last year, an age discrimination suit filed against the Mic Group, a subsidiary of J.B. Poindexter & Co., reached the Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case. “There are plenty of judges (who) are on high courts already who have had unanimous support of the Republicans”.
