Flags in Pennsylvania to fly at half-staff in Scalia’s honor

So nothing Scalia did or said in pending cases matters to the outcome.“The vote of a deceased justice does not count, ” veteran Supreme Court lawyer Roy Englert said Sunday, a day after Scalia was found dead in his room at a west Texas ranch. “Justice Scalia was a giant of American jurisprudence”, Miller said.

Scalia was known for issuing statements expressing his minority opinion whenever he was overcome by a liberal voting majority and was happy to reiterate his opposition to gay marriage or affirmative action for African-Americans.

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week”, while discussing President Barack Obama nominating a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Sen.

“Justice Antonin Scalia was a ‎passionate defender of our Constitution and one of the most influential legal minds of our time”.

Be that as it may, the reality is the Republican Senate is not going to confirm anyone President Obama sends up, and I don’t think anyone would imagine otherwise.

His Democratic counterpart Harry Reid said postponing a nomination would be a “shameful abdication” of the Senate’s constitutional duties. His appointment was eventually confirmed by the Senate. Doing so could enable the president to extend his legacy for decades.

But Justice Anthony Kennedy, nominated by Ronald Reagan, was confirmed in 1988, an election year.

Roberts famously sided with liberals in a case keeping the underpinning of the Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as Obamacare) in place, which handed the president a win and infuriated his colleague Scalia. But he said Scalia also might have gambled and waited longer. “I think that certainly we have some great people”.

Access to abortion services is another issue up for review by the Court. “Do they decide them, do they hold them over?”

Before Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s body was barely cold, GOP Sen.

On Saturday, Nahmias called Scalia “a wonderful man, devoted to his family and his faith and a loyal friend and mentor to so many people, including me”.

“If Donald Trump becomes president, the Second Amendment will be written out of the Constitution because it is abundantly clear that Donald Trump is not a conservative”.

Supreme Court nominations are rare, so neither side has much data to rely on in determining precedents.

Lujan says an autopsy was not performed. But he was also one of the fathers of the modern conservative movement’s “you can believe me or you can believe your lying eyes” school of politics. Garland is the chief judge of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, nominated by President Bill Clinton.

But the Republican candidates for the presidential nomination have called for a delay until after the election. Now that question will not be hypothetical, but very real. This time, the focus is on the arrangement the Obama administration worked out to spare faith-based hospitals, colleges and charities from paying for contraceptives for women covered under their health plans, while still ensuring that those women can obtain birth control at no extra cost as the law requires. And Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has been asked a lot about retirement in recent years because of her age and two bouts with cancer, is 82.

Scalia knew Obama would not nominate someone with the same views he held, Axelrod said, but Scalia said the president should nominate someone smart. The Judiciary Committee hearings on Scalia were largely pro forma, and the Senate approved him by a vote of 98-0 – while 33 members voted against Rehnquist.

Many political figures have weighed in on Scalia’s death and its implications for the 2016 race.

During Saturday night’s debate in South Carolina, Marco Rubio said that “it has been over 80 years since a lame-duck president has appointed a Supreme Court justice”. “He leaves behind a formidable record of jurisprudence, and a fierce articulation of his understanding of the Constitution”.