Sandra Day O’Connor Says Obama Should Get To Replace Justice Scalia

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said that the vacancy shouldn’t be filled until the next presidency, and GOP presidential candidate and Texas senator Ted Cruz has promised to filibuster any candidate Obama nominates.

Although the White House hasn’t publicly disclosed any candidates Obama is considering, he’s expected to look closely at a number of circuit court judges – including some that meet the benchmark that Biden laid out. “The Senate is to consider that nomination and either they disapprove of that nominee, or that nominee is elevated to the Supreme Court”. “Historically, this has not been viewed as a question”.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, the judiciary committee’s top Democrat, prodded Republicans to act on whomever Obama nominates for a lifetime appointment to the court. A fifth liberal justice on the court will pass the socialist agenda of the president with lightening speed.

Scalia, the longest-serving justice on the court, died Saturday, sparking a partisan battle over the process of replacing him.

But to defeat Obama’s push, media consultants say, the GOP’s politicians should keep repeating an identical, boring and vague response on the issue, which would eventually starve the media of new drama that allows Obama to keep political pressure on the GOP.

Hagee then went on to declare that Obama “has a master’s degree in deception” for daring to suggest that there is any sort of urgency in confirming a replacement for Scalia and called upon all Republican senators to “boycott any person that the president of the United States puts forward”. That means there is likely to be very little blowback if and when President Obama’s pick doesn’t wind up getting a vote before the November election.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday reiterated that he doesn’t believe NY businessman Donald Trump will ever be president, saying the American people realize the highest office in the nation “is not a reality show”. The Republican presidential frontrunner, billionaire real estate developer Donald Trump, said at last Saturday’s debate that Republicans should “delay, delay, delay” efforts to approve any Obama choice. “And I think they recognize that being president is a serious job”.