Have been running all day. No tv or radio. Wow.  Scalia dead? 
RIP.
Obama gets to appoint!!
Now who is going to tell Thomas how to vote?

Last edited by zeke (2/13/2016 8:24 pm)

Will the Repubs block Obama's nominee for 10 or more months until we have a new president?

It is so frustrating.  
Congress needs to work with the President, not against him.

The GOP will try to block it for 10 months...even longer actually, because it's not like a brand new POTUS is going to appoint someone that day, it will take at least a few weeks and then there will be confirmation hearings. 

I think one of the things that people are most fed up about is Congressional gridlock and the fact that they act like spoiled children who won't do any work if things aren't going their way. I think they will lose the majority as well as the WH if they shut down this confirmation process by refusing to have hearings.

It is the job of the sitting POTUS to appoint Supreme Court nominees. Period. It doesn't matter if you don't like it. Those are the rules.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, in 2005:

"The Constitution of the United States is at stake.  Article II, Section 2 clearly provides that the President, and the President alone, nominates judges.  The Senate is empowered to give advice and consent.  But my Democratic colleagues want to change the rules.  They want to reinterpret the Constitution to require a supermajority for confirmation.  In effect, they would take away the power to nominate from the President and grant it to a minority of 41 Senators."

"[T]he Republican conference intends to restore the principle that, regardless of party, any President's judicial nominees, after full debate, deserve a simple up-or-down vote.  I know that some of our colleagues wish that restoration of this principle were not required. But it is a measured step that my friends on the other side of the aisle have unfortunately made necessary. For the first time in 214 years, they have changed the Senate's 'advise and consent' responsibilities to 'advise and obstruct.'"
 

Last edited by DollyLongstaff (2/14/2016 2:16 pm)

Spunky wrote:

Dolly or anyone:  Do you have any ideas as to who's on President Obama's short list as nominees to replace Scalia?

Hi Anyone or NEone here! Ripped from Yahoos headlines:

Obama’s shortlist includes Sri Srinivasan, a U.S. Court of Appeals judge for the District of Columbia circuit; Merrick Garland, chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit; Attorney General Loretta Lynch; Neal Katyal, a Georgetown law professor who spent one year as Obama’s acting solicitor general; Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson; Solicitor General Don Verrilli; and former Attorney General Eric Holder.Obama has told friends that he views nominating two women — Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — to the court as a key part of his legacy. The president could now try to name a third, with Lynch and Patricia Ann Millett, who like Srinivasan is a U.S. Court of Appeals judge for the District of Columbia circuit.
 

I looked him up and it said that Sri  Srinvasan would be first Indian American justice to serve on the SC. It also said that he's more of a "moderate"

If Republicans don't FINALLY compromise & agree, then they' could be seen as being out-of-touch with the majority of voters.

Typical Republican move.

Minutes after Scalia's death is announced, the first thing out of their mouths is about blocking Obama from nominating his replacement.

Talk about "effing" rude and insensitive.

needtosay wrote:

Yes and they are now trying to turn it around on Obama.  The are criticizing him for saying he is going to appoint someone so soon after the mans death. 

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Yet, they aren't criticizing Mitch McConnell or  Chuck Grassley for making statements HOURS before Pres. Obama's saying that he shouldn't nominate anyone & if he does, they won't confirm them......SMH!!