Supreme Court meets for first time since Scalia’s death

February 22 04:09 2016

The justice’s almost 30 years of service on the nation’s highest court showed an Italian American taking a leading role in the use of U.S. Constitution’s actual text as a basis for his written opinions. Losing his strong conservative voice on the court is a big blow to Republicans, and they lost no time in expressing their views on his replacement.

Perhaps it could become that if all candidates, Democrat and Republican, would disclose their preferred court nominee along with their running mate and Cabinet members.

“The Republican base doesn’t want a liberal justice, and they’re completely fine with the court having a vacancy for as long as is required to get a justice they believe is right”, Fagen said.

McConnell and other Republican senators who are defying the president must be pressured to resign from the Senate.

Republican candidate Donald Trump voiced the same opinion at the start of the 9th GOP debate. “I think they’re intimidated by it. I think it’s the tail wagging the dog”, he said.

It took just a little while more for Republican leadership to agree with them.

“The Republican idea that the president should wait until a new president is elected… that’s never happened”, said Dr. Thomas Hunter, Associate Professor of Political Science at UWG.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.), who, like Cruz, is running for president, made clear that he too wanted the “next president” to nominate a Scalia replacement. Justice Scalia was most famous for focusing on an interpretation of the Constitution known as originalism. So what does the Constitution say about this situation? “Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President”.

“I still remember the first time I argued a case before him when he was on the D.C. Circuit”, said John M. Facciola, who then served as an attorney before becoming a U.S. Magistrate Judge at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Let the president nominate, let the Judiciary Committee consider, let the Senate vote.

Republicans do not deny that Obama may put forth a nominee, but they insist the Senate is entitled to withhold its consent and delay filling the vacancy until after the November presidential election.

More than 3,000 people had passed by the casket as of late afternoon and court officials added an extra hour to accommodate the long lines that stretched more than three blocks in the early evening.

This scenario could affect up to 18 cases in the coming term, and would affect future terms unless a ninth justice is confirmed by the Senate.

“This is my final governor’s dinner – at least, my final one as president”, Mr. Obama said. “We can not afford to see Justice Stevens replaced by another Roberts, or Justice Ginsburg by another Alito.'” Schumer will likely be the Democratic Leader after Harry Reid retires and has been one of the loudest critics of McConnell’s vow not to confirm a new Justice.

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Supreme Court meets for first time since Scalia’s death
 
 
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