President Obama Will Not Attend Justice Scalia’s Funeral

Justice Stephen Breyer said he was a “legal titan”.

President Obama has said he would act “in due time” to nominate a replacement Supreme Court justice.

President Obama and Justice Scalia did not see eye-to-eye on many Constitutional issues.

A large entourage of Scalia family members, including his widow, Maureen, attended the ceremony. He has 36 grandchildren.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., left, Ginny Thomas, next to her husband Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, attend a private ceremony in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court on February 19. “He should be there to pay his respects, the same way a Republican president should pay his respects should one of the other justices die”.

What is a catafalque? The president has absolutely every right to nominate someone to the Supreme Court, but Congress as an equal branch also has every right not to confirm someone. It was constructed for the coffin of Abraham Lincoln.

The eight remaining justices observed a moment of silence, standing in the same order they sit in the Supreme Court.

The formal tribute to the conservative jurist began with current and former law clerks lining the marble steps of the nation’s highest court as Supreme Court police officers carried the justice’s U.S. flag-draped coffin. Another former solicitor general, Ted Olson, who has argued several cases before the court including Bush v. Gore, was present.

Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley was asked on CNN if there was any basis in fact or historical precedent for the Senate Republican plan to obstruct President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. Other Republicans walked back earlier comments that had opened the door to granting a hearing and possibly a vote to Obama’s choice to replace Justice Antonin Scalia.

MIKE MEACHAM: It’s an important thing, an important American that we’ve lost.

Who were his best friends on the court? According to Marquette University Law School: “Over the past 60 years, dying while still on the bench has become quite rare”.

President Barack Obama will not attend Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s funeral on Saturday, the White House said Wednesday. In Twitter post number four, she announced that she’s urging Obama to follow what she called “a tradition embraced by both parties” and let the next president make the nomination.