Supreme Court Justice Scalia will not be down for Breakfast....

[Dale00]

By all accounts, a good man. RIP Justice Scalia

 

[Wheel Gun]

Obama will appoint Bill Ayers and the hapless Republican senators will just timidly approve it all. Our nation takes another huge blow.

 

[Glocktogo]

Son of a....

Condolences to the family and the country. I doubt very much that our "conservative" Senate has the stones to stall an appointment for nearly a year.

That bunch of mewling vaginas? Not a snowball's chance in hell.

 

[cw821]

Three months.

Damn it. Not the answer I was looking for.

 

[Glocktogo]

This country's civil cold war is about to get pretty warm.

 

[BillMac]

Now after the election Hillary can make Obama a justice, he'll fit right in.
Resistance is futile, accept the liberal life and be happy.

That would be our worst nightmare!
Might be best not to bring up any more 2A cases to the court in the future if that were to happen. GOD help us all! I wonder if this will spur even more gun sales.

 

[ldp4570]

We are in for a rough ride. I suggest stockpiling guns and ammo along with other gear, as its going to be a long century!

 

[Dale00]

The battle has begun

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday said the Senate would not hold a vote on any President Obama replacement for deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, but instead would wait until a new president takes office -- setting the stage for a dramatic political showdown in Washington.

"The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President," McConnell said in a statement.

With his previous two appointments, Obama was replacing liberal justices with younger liberals. But with Scalia, he'd have the chance to replace the justice who has held the fort down for conservatives on the Court for the past 30 years, potentially moving the court dramatically to the left.

Democrats have already made clear that they intend to move aggressively for a new justice to be appointed.

"The President can and should send the Senate a nominee right away," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said on Twitter. "The Senate has a responsibility to fill vacancies as soon as possible."

The ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee took a similar line.

"I hope that no one will use this sad news to suggest that the President or the Senate should not perform its constitutional duty," Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Saturday. "The American people deserve to have a full functioning Supreme Court.The Supreme Court of the United States is too important to our democracy for it to be understaffed for partisan reasons. It is only February. The President and the Senate should get to work without delay to nominate, consider and confirm the next justice to serve on the Supreme Court."

McConnell celebrated Scalia's legacy in his statement: "Today our country lost an unwavering champion of a timeless document that unites each of us as Americans. Justice Scalia's fidelity to the Constitution was rivaled only by the love of his family: his wife Maureen his nine children, and his many grandchildren. Through the sheer force of his intellect and his legendary wit, this giant of American jurisprudence almost singlehandedly revived an approach to constitutional interpretation that prioritized the text and original meaning‎ of the Constitution. Elaine and I send our deepest condolences to the entire Scalia family.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/mcconnell-no-new-justice-this-year/article/2583231

An optimist would say "bravo" for McConnell. A pessimist would say he is just posturing to please the base and to set things up for a bigger "inducement" to change his mind.

 

[Biggsly]

If you don't support Obama's pick, you are a racist.

 

[Glocktogo]

The battle has begun

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/mcconnell-no-new-justice-this-year/article/2583231

An optimist would say "bravo" for McConnell. A pessimist realist would say he is just posturing to please the base and to set things up for a bigger "inducement" to change his mind.

Fify.