supreme court

[carlotpilot]

supreme court justice antonin scalia has died.

[41chevy]

Now Obama gets to put another of his sheeple in. . .

[RowdyRebel]

$#!+...the GOP had better block any effort by Obama to appoint another damn lib to replace him. They have the majority...they need to USE it to force a nomination closer to the "moderate" Kennedy and less like the far-left Sotomayor and Kagan. I think that's probably the best case scenario, though, and hopefully the next president can replace a lib or two on the court with scalia-esque justices.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/13/supreme-court-justice-scalia-dead-at-79.html

[41chevy]

$#!+...the GOP had better block any effort by Obama to appoint another damn lib to replace him. They have the majority...they need to USE it to force a nomination closer to the "moderate" Kennedy and less like the far-left Sotomayor and Kagan. I think that's probably the best case scenario, though, and hopefully the next president can replace a lib or two on the court with scalia-esque justices. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/13/supreme-court-justice-scalia-dead-at-79.html

NE YORK TIMES

Here's who's on deck:

Sri Srinivasan

The 48-year-old moderate D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals judge, has already been labeled Obama’s “Supreme Court nominee in waiting,” by The New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin.Widely seen as the most likely choice, he would be the first Indian-American justice on the highest court. Srinivasan is poised to be chosen for the Supreme on the D.C. Circuit Court, the second-highest court where John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg all were nominated from. The Lawrence, Kansas native most famously argued against the Defense of Marriage Act while he was the Obama Administration's principal deputy solicitor general.

Paul Watford

Watford, a 48-year-old African-American Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge who Obama said “has displayed exceptional dedication to the legal profession throughout his work,” after his 2012 confirmation. He was nominated with broad bipartisan support to the Ninth Circuit Court in 2011. Even Daniel Collins, Antonin Scalia's clerk at the time, praised Watford's confirmation. "I don't think he'll approach the job with any kind of agenda other than to do what is right and consistent with precedent as he understands it," Collins said in 2011, according to the Los Angeles Times.

David Barron

First Circuit Court of Appeals Judge David Barron would be a controversial choice for Obama. Barron notoriously authored a secret memo which justified Obama's decision to order drone strikes on Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen who became a radicalized Islamic militant living in Yemen.

. Merrick Garland

Garland is the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and is known for having lead prosecutions in the Oklahoma City bombing and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski cases while he was the Associate Deputy Attorney General from 1994 to 2013. "His name has been kicking around for a while. He's not an extremely liberal Democrat, he's sort of a near centrist," Wermiel, the American University law professor, said.

Loretta Lynch

Obama has already nominated two female Supreme Court justices early on in his presidency--in 2009, he picked Bronx-native Sonia Sotomayor and in 2010 he chose New Yorker Elena Kagan. Why not more women on the highest court? Loretta Lynch was recently nominated and confirmed with bipartisan support to be the U.S. Attorney General in April 2015. She came out swinging in her new role, already filing a discrimination lawsuit against the city of Ferguson, Missouri and indicting nine FIFA executives for the match-fixing scandal. Lynch, who was the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney before her recent promotion, would be the first black woman as a justice, to boot.

Patricia Ann Millett

D.C. Circuit judge Patricia Ann Millett, another Harvard Law School alum, has spent most of her career practicing corporate law at the firm Miller & Chevalier She has argued 32 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and holds a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, according to her profile on the U.S. Court of Appeal site.

GOP ain't gonna do crap except make a show and say they tried. Like the budget deal they were going make a stand and save us from. They fall apart under Obamas wishes just like toilet paper in the bowl. Same libs just different logo.