Bush: Senate court vote ‘not important’ to him

As the political battles heated up over who should replace Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, lawyers familiar with North Carolina’s redistricting case and other high-profile lawsuits took time on Sunday to weigh what impact the conservative jurist’s death might have on their cases.

That prospect alarmed Republicans who demanded that Mr Obama, whose presidency has less than a year to run, leave the decision on a replacement to his successor in the White House.

McConnell’s move isn’t without its risks. Ted Cruz, one of the two GOP senators running for president, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the GOP-controlled Senate is doing its job.

Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara was in Alpine when she learned of the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in West Texas.

As the Inquisitr has reported, the process for appointing a new Justice to the Supreme Court isn’t particularly complicated, but it is time consuming – it takes around three months on average to confirm a new Supreme Court Justice. WSJ’s Jason Bellini reports. “The president makes the appointment, Senate confirms, let’s get on with that business”, the senator said on “Fox News Sunday”.

Both would-be nominators and would-be delayers have claimed that historical precedent backs their position, and both are eager to install someone with their political leanings in the highest court; presumably, a Republican presidential win in 2016 would secure a seat for a more conservative justice. He was confirmed in an nearly unprecedented 97-0 vote in the U.S. Senate.

“That’s a great example of one where we might not get the resolution we thought we’d get”, Bursch said. She was eventually confirmed by the Senate in a 70-27 vote.

“If the Republican leadership refuses to even hold a hearing, I think that is going to guarantee they lose control of the Senate, because I don’t think the American people will stand for that”, he said on CNN’s “State of the Union”.

If there’s any consensus on the looming showdown over the Court’s balance, it’s that the ground has shifted under the 2016 race.

Hassan, who is challenging Republican U.S. Sen.

John Kasich said today that he is well-prepared to pick a Supreme Court justice who “doesn’t make law, but somebody who will interpret the law” if elected president, and reiterated his belief that a new justice will not be confirmed during the remainder of President Barack Obama’s presidency. Guevara says she heard about Scalia’s death from a sheriff, and was planning to travel to the luxury ranch where Scalia died, when a US Marshal called her. “It’s not necessary for you to come, judge”.

But Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid said failure by the Senate to act would be a “shameful abdication” of the chamber’s constitutional responsibilities.

There’s been a lot of speculation about who Obama will nominate.

Guevara said Scalia had gone to his doctor for a shoulder injury last week, but he also suffered from several chronic ailments. At a debate on Saturday, Republican front-runner Donald Trump called for “delay, delay, delay”. It’s safe to say that someone like this would not survive a confirmation vote in the Senate (if Republicans ever even brought it up for a vote). While Klobuchar is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, an affiliate of the Democratic Party, her participation on the Senate Judiciary Committee may give her nomination more weight.

“The president can decide whatever he wants, but I’m just telling you the Senate is not moving forward on it until we have a new president, and I agree with that”, Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, said on CBS’s “Face the Nation”.