Obama to visit court to pay respects to Scalia on Friday

One Republican even suggested the president should nominate a candidate from his state.

Bidding farewell to their longtime colleague, the eight remaining Supreme Court justices joined family members, former law clerks and members of the public Friday in paying their respects to Antonin Scalia in a tradition-laden, solemn day at the marble courthouse atop Capitol Hill. The high school junior from North Carolina said she respected Scalia.

“These are materials related to some potential nominees”. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. He recalled what would happen to anyone who said “um” at dinner.

“If POTUS ignores precedent”, she said in tweet number five, “I believe extraordinary circumstances give the Senate every right to deny the nominee an up or down vote”.

While nobody’s death should be celebrated, Justice Scalia’s death left a shiny ticket to social progress in its wake. And I wish the president will as he makes choices and goes down that line.

Wrangling over replacing Scalia came as preparations were ramping up to honor the conservative firebrand’s life and legacy on the court.

It looks very possible the Senate, which has a Republican majority, will not confirm any appointments by President Barack Obama, hoping they will have a Republican president in the White House next year who will appoint a conservative judge, he said.

In a written statement announcing his position, Heller said, “The chances of approving a new nominee are slim, but Nevadans should have a voice in the process”. Republican leaders have already made clear that they will seek to block any nomination and have called upon President Obama to hold off on nominating any replacement and to let the eventual victor of the 2016 presidential election fill the space.

Obama will be accompanied by first lady Michelle Obama, White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday. If there’s a tie, the lower court ruling is upheld.

He also nodded at Scalia’s “originalist” interpretation of Constitution by arguing that the Supreme Court should decide through that prism.

If Republicans seem seriously amenable to holding confirmation hearings, Obama would have greater reason to name a “consensus candidate”, a moderate nominee that Republicans would be hard-pressed to reject. Earnest rebuked critics who he said “want to use the funeral of the Supreme Court justice as some sort of political cudgel”. “The goal of the hearing is to determine whether or not this individual, based on their record should be named to the highest court in the land”.