Mourners pay respects to late Justice Scalia

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has weighed in on the debate surrounding Justice Antonin Scalia’s replacement to the high court, saying she believes President Barack Obama should name Scalia’s successor.

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump tweeted during the mass: “I wonder if President Obama would have attended the funeral of Justice Scalia if it were held in a Mosque?”

Yes, it is conceivable that President Obama will appoint someone who stands at the opposite end of Mr. Justice Scalia’s point of view, just as it is equally likely that a Republican President will appoint someone to the Court who stands at the opposite end of, say, Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s interpretation of the law.

“Presidential terms are not three-year terms; they’re four-year terms”, Kind said.

Scalia himself said in recent years that one thing he wished the framers of the Constitution had done differently was to make the document easier to amend.

Srinivasan is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Obama faces a Republican leadership that appears united in opposing his decision to fill the seat as well as a crop of Republicans facing re-election who have lined up behind their leaders.

At last night’s town hall, he gave a new reason for the refusal: Such hearings couldn’t help but be “very politicized” and “unfair to the nominee”. Scalia’s death has brought into stark relief how Supreme Court appointments can be a president’s most lasting legacy.

Biden said Obama will instead pick someone who isn’t overtly ideological, and mentioned two justices selected by Republican presidents: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, considered a swing vote on the court, and retired Justice David H. Souter, who often sided with the court’s liberals. When the shoe was on the other foot in the final 18 months of the Ronald Reagan presidency, the Paper of Record made it clear that the voter mandate that counted when it came to Supreme Court nominations was the sixth-year midterm, not the fourth-year re-election. “And were the nomination to get out of the Judiciary Committee, it’s entirely within the control and discretion of the Senate majority leader, Sen”.

Your mandate, Mr. President, is to find a nominee to the Supreme Court who represents the best elements of American jurisprudence. Obama has pledged to pick a replacement “in due time” and challenged Republicans to hold a vote on his nominee. “This is going to be an issue in the campaign”. But the county sheriff also told her “there were no signs of foul play or struggle, and that it appeared that Justice Scalia had died peacefully in his sleep”. If elected, Trump could be put on trial for war crimes if he would follow through on his talk of reinstating torture and assassinating foreign leaders, Kind warned.

College affordability: Kind promoted his College Affordability Action Plan that would permit people to refinance student loans when lower interest rates become available and prohibit the federal government from profiting from student loans.

In words that to many seemed to refer to his father, Paul Scalia said: “We are gathered here because of one man. A man known personally to many of us, known only by reputation to even more, a man loved by many, scorned by others, a man known for great controversy, and for great compassion”. He formerly worked in the U.S. Solicitor General’s office in Republican and Democratic administrations.

“I’d rather have it be our rules than no rules at all, or possibly China’s rules”, he said.