Most Wisconsin residents want Scalia seat filled on court

Announced delaying tactics to Obama’s nominee will be counterproductive.

The prophet Isaiah said, “I saw the Lord in the year King Uzziah died”. Republicans in the GOP-controlled U.S. Senate have vowed to ignore him, preferring to wait for a new president – maybe a Republican – in January.

Any nominee for a federal judgeship must secure approval of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The White House insists that unambiguous declaration doesn’t mean game over for the president. “I’m looking for a mastery of the law, with an ability to hone in on the key issues before the Court, and provide clear answers to complex legal questions”, Obama wrote.

That’s why Republican Party leaders and wannabe presidential candidates have shown – again – they’re “conservative” only when it suits their purposes. Members have signaled that they would even refuse to meet one-on-one with the nominee, which is a long-established Senate custom in the confirmation process, NPR notes.

“Needless to say, this isn t something I take lightly”. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, a committee member.

But as he broadly criticized legislators from the other party for how they’ve responded to the sudden Supreme Court vacancy, Casey said he has yet to speak with his Pennsylvania counterpart, Republican Sen. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in a statement Wednesday called Republicans’ refusal to consider any appointee “shameful and indefensible”. “That’s what I’m considering as I fulfill my constitutional duty to appoint a judge to our highest court”, Obama adds. Comparing the situation to a 1944 Supreme Court decision upholding President Franklin Roosevelt’s creation of Japanese internment camps, Breyer said the court has fallen more on the side of habeus corpus, the Constitutional right to seek relief form unlawful imprisonment.

Obama is offering his most expansive description of the qualities he’s seeking in a replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

Obama said then: “We’re going to find somebody who has an outstanding legal mind, somebody who cares deeply about our democracy and cares about rule of law”.