Comments on: Now that Justice Scalia has died, what will Congress do?

By: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 18:12:33 +0000

ton – The President has a constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court Justice. The Senate has the right to advise and consent. No consent, no appointment. Simple as that.

By: Richard Saunders

Richard Saunders — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 18:11:05 +0000

ton – The President has a constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court Justice.

By: ron snyder

ron snyder — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:08:45 +0000

Glen thinks that BHO may have a constitutional right to appoint a SC judge. http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

By: mezzrow

mezzrow — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 18:27:18 +0000

What will Obama do? A recess appointment? He has a window of opportunity, it seems:

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/226701/

By: Walter Sobchak

Walter Sobchak — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 16:13:04 +0000

I am sure that Obama will nominate some communist who is a certified triple minority, e.g. gay, black, transsexual. The media will then lumber the Rs as racists and homophobes for opposing zir.

If there is an over/under on the Senate Republican’s holding out, I will take the under. They are gutless swine.

By: militarybooks

militarybooks — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 16:00:08 +0000

Notice McConnell’s statement is as fluffy and soft as a French Waffle?

“The American peopleâ€Ž should [SHOULD? NOT MUST?] have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should [SHOULD? NOT WILL?] not be filled until we have a new President.

He should have said: The American peopleâ€Ž WILL have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy WILL not be filled until we have a new President.

By: snopercod

snopercod — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 12:18:37 +0000

The Senate is in recess until the 23rd, so what’s to prevent Obama from making a recess appointment? I’m thinking he’ll install Valerie Jarrett.

By: Nolanimrod

Nolanimrod — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 11:47:11 +0000

A tradition has grown up that a lame duck president in his last year should leave SCOTUS nominations to his successor.

I remember LBJ being frustrated by that. When a vacancy occurred after he declined to run for re-election the Senate, even a Democratic Senate, made it plain that filling the seat would be left to the next president.

Then, again, I may have it entirely wrong. It was a weird time. Johnson had previously tried to promote Abe Fortas from Associate Justice to Chief Justice and Fortas, running into ethics questions, not only wasn’t confirmed but ended up resigning altogether. Later Nixon resolved the confusion by replacing Chief Justice Earl Warren with Chief Justice Warren Earl (Burger).

By: Oldflyer

Oldflyer — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 02:20:11 +0000

McConnell quoted as saying the replacement will be appointed by the next President. We shall see.

By: rickl

rickl — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 01:42:21 +0000

I’m willing to believe that Scalia died of natural causes, until proven otherwise.

But the conspiracy theorists are already out and about.

No matter how he died, this really does look like a Franz Ferdinand moment for America. Forces are being set into motion that will be impossible to stop.