I think it is the same with everyone on the short list that I saw on facebook.  Obama is playing it smart by choosing people who have already passed muster for other jobs. 

Loretta Lynch is also in the running.

God moves in mysterious ways.

Don't Republicans know that God took Antonin "Nino" Scalia from us during Obama's second term so that Obama (the Messiah) could nominate a new supreme court justice before he leaves office?

Last edited by DollyLongstaff (2/16/2016 9:43 am)

Dr. Ben Carson says Republican presidential candidates wouldn’t be calling on deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s replacement to be nominated by the next president if a member of their party currently held the White House.Asked on WRNN 99.5 FM in South Carolina if his fellow candidates would say the same thing about waiting to nominate a new justice if there was a Republican president, Carson replied, “No, they wouldn’t.”“But then again, recognize that the two picks that the president has selected are ideologues, so there’s really no reason to believe that his next pick wouldn’t be an ideologue also,” Carson said.
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So, what makes a Justice an ideologue? Two-thirds of the 72 cases fully decided in the 2014 term of the current Supreme Court  were unanimous, the highest percentage in years, so how are Kagan & Sotomayor then  ideologues?

I wonder if Ben Carson thinks Justice Scalia was an ideologue.

Do you or SEC..... think that McConnell can get away with stopping the nomination? Or in pushing to stop the vote??

Knowing that Scalia was a big proponent of the constitution.... McConnell and the others are telling him a big FU....we don''t care....So therefore, they are in agreement with all the crazy people and the craziness  being said about Justice Scalia on the web.

They don't even respect their own...smh

Interesting Tidbit:

Scalia's Hunting Trip Was a "Gift" From a "Friend" Who Had Business Before the Supreme Court.

Justice Antonin Scalia was taking a free vacation at the exclusive Cibolo Creek Ranch in West Texas when he was found dead inside a guest room Saturday.

The trip, the Washington Post reports, was a gift from the ranch’s owner, who just last year obtained a favorable result from the Supreme Court.

The 30,000-acre hunting ranch, located around 30 miles from the Mexican border in the West Texas town of Shafter, is also the home of owner John B. Poindexter, who owns the Houston-based manufacturing firm J.B. Poindexter & Co.The two men already had a tenuous connection outside of the ranch.

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.

Last edited by DollyLongstaff (2/17/2016 3:55 pm)

For the Obama haters criticizing him for not attending Scalia's funeral:

Ed Whelan, the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, who once clerked for Justice Scalia and shares the same faith, said that Mr. Obama made the right decision.

Mr. Whelan emphasized that traditional Catholic funerals are deeply religious affairs during which even eulogies are discouraged.“For Catholics, a funeral Mass is first and foremost a funeral, not an event of state,” Mr. Whelan said.

While President George W. Bush attended the funeral in 2005 of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who was the last justice to die while on the bench, funerals of other justices have passed without the presence of either the president or the vice president.

Michael Moreland, a law professor at Villanova University who is Catholic and was on the White House staff of Mr. Bush, said both sides had valid points.The event on Friday at the Supreme Court is the more appropriate place for a presidential visit.

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