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Post by Daniel on Feb 14, 2016 20:54:23 GMT -5
Supreme Court Justice Scalia dead at 79
WND
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead of apparent natural causes Saturday on a luxury resort in West Texas, federal officials said.
Scalia, 79, was a guest at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, a resort in the Big Bend region south of Marfa.
Scalia arrived at the ranch on Friday and attended a private party with about 40 people, reported the San Antonio Express-News. When he did not appear for breakfast, a staff member from the ranch went to his room and found his body.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott released a statement, calling Scalia – appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 – a man of God, a patriot and an “unwavering defender of the written Constitution.”
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www.wnd.com/2016/02/supreme-court-justice-scalia-dead-at-79/
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Post by Daniel on Feb 14, 2016 20:57:35 GMT -5
Ted Cruz: Honor Justice Scalia by Preventing Obama from Choosing His Replacement
by Jordan Schachtel 13 Feb 2016
GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
(R-TX, following the tragic death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, pledged to honor his name by asking his followers to help prevent Barack Obama from nominating his replacement to the nation’s highest court.
Justice Scalia, one of the court’s most steady Constitutional voices for decades, passed away at his West Texas ranch on Saturday. The 79-year-old died of natural causes, according to reports.
Cruz took to social media, stating:
Justice Scalia was an American hero. We owe it to him, & the Nation, for the Senate to ensure that the next President names his replacement.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 13, 2016
Sen. Cruz also issued the following statement regarding Scalia’s passing:
Today our Nation mourns the loss of one of the greatest Justices in history – Justice Antonin Scalia. A champion of our liberties and a stalwart defender of the Constitution, he will go down as one of the few Justices who single-handedly changed the course of legal history.
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www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/13/ted-cruz-honor-justice-scalia-by-preventing-obama-from-choosing-his-replacement/
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Post by txlulu on Feb 14, 2016 21:28:50 GMT -5
Very sad. But it seems so disrespectful to his memory to already be fighting over who will get to name his replacement.
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Post by Daniel on Feb 15, 2016 10:22:43 GMT -5
We must have an immediate Scalia autopsy
By James Lewis
February 15, 2016
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia has died, deeply mourned by his friends and admirers, while liberals are happily celebrating his demise (in their usual indecent fashion). La Raza, radical environmentalists and the affirmative action establishment are celebrating today.
Scalia’s sudden death leaves a 4-4 split on the Court, neutralizing the power of the Court until a 9th Justice is confirmed. But Obama might try to make a recess appointment, thereby sabotaging the Senate’s Advice and Consent role. He has already done that with the fraud-filled Iranian nuclear surrender “treaty.” This President has open contempt for the US Constitution, and Scalia was a passionate constitutionalist.
The battle lines for a successor were drawn within 24 hours of Scalia’s death. No post-mortem was conducted in Texas, which is itself a major reason for concern — and one that is easy to solve by insisting on an extremely thorough study of his remains by highly reputable pathologists.
There are very few indispensable people in this world, but Justice Anthony Scalia came as close as anyone. His sudden death creates an opportunity to change the balance on the Court for years to come, a major long-term aspiration of the hard Left. Scalia was beloved by American conservatives and ferociously hated by the Left, not excluding the highest levels of the Democratic Party.
That is why it is crucial to have a Joint Committee of Congress to put any reasonable doubts to rest.
We are living in extremely dangerous time, both domestically and in foreign affairs. Domestically we are more divided today than we have been since Vietnam. The Party Line media have gone out of their way to divide the country by race, gender, and sexual preference. Those divisive tactics have enraged some people on both sides to the point of threatening violence.
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www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/02/we_must_have_an_immediate_scalia_autopsy.html
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Post by Daniel on Feb 16, 2016 17:56:56 GMT -5
Edward Whelan: Scalia’s Passing Could Cost Americans Their Constitution
by Dan Riehl 14 Feb 2016
President Barack Obama and his progressives can grab control of the nation’s constitution if he gets to appoint a Supreme Court replacement for Antonin Scalia, says Ed Whelan, a former law clerk for Scalia.
“If President Obama has another appointee to this Court, we’re going to have an entrenchment of the Left on constitutional issues for the next generations, or so and a great deal will be lost on a whole range of issues in a way that might not ever be recoverable,” he told Breitbart News Sunday host Alex Marlow, on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125.
Whelan, who is now President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and writes at National Review Online’s Bench Memos, joined Breitbart News Sunday to discuss Scalia’s recent passing from a heart attack at age 79, leaving the court with three conservatives, four liberals and one swing-vote.
Whelan wrote yesterday in Bench Memos that:
Senate Republicans would be grossly irresponsible to allow President Obama, in the last months of his presidency, to cement a liberal majority that will wreak havoc on the Constitution. Let the people decide in November who will select the next justice.
Whelan called Scalia a “gregarious, joyful person” who “loved vigorous argument and struggled to get cases right,” while noting his “wonderful laugh” and calling him “challenging and intimidating, a great mentor and great judge.”
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www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/02/14/edward-whelan-scalias-passing-could-cost-america-the-constitution/
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Post by Daniel on Feb 22, 2016 8:55:22 GMT -5
The Constitution is Clear: The Senate’s “Advice and Consent” is Not a Rubber Stamp of the President
By Jay Sekulow
The Constitution is clear about the roles of both the President and the U.S. Senate in the nomination and confirmation of Supreme Court justices.
Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution governs the nomination and appointment of Supreme Court justices: “[The President,] by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law . . . .”
The President submits his nomination to the U.S. Senate. Senate procedure dictates the next steps. But normally, the nomination goes to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which determines whether to hold hearings on the nomination or not. After hearings are held, the Senate Judiciary Committee may then decide whether to bring the nomination up for a vote in the Committee or not. If the vote passes out of the Committee, the Senate Majority Leader then may decide whether to bring the nomination to the floor of the Senate or not. At that point, there could be debate on the floor of the U.S. Senate and a possible cloture vote to determine whether to close debate on the nomination and bring up a confirmation vote on the Senate floor. If the nomination receives a cloture vote of at least 60 votes, then the nomination can receive a final up-or-down vote. If the nomination does not reach the 60-vote threshold to close debate this is known as a filibuster.
Once cloture is reached, then the nomination is given a final vote. If a majority of the Senate approves of the nominee, then the nominee is confirmed and their appointment to the Supreme Court is complete. If a majority of the Senate does not approve, then the nominee is rejected.
This entire process makes up the “advice and consent” duty of the U.S. Senate. It is within the discretion of the Senate as to what action, if any, to take for a given nomination.
As I told Fox News earlier this week, "While President Obama remains free to appoint a conservative committed to upholding the Constitution as [Justice Scalia’s] replacement, he has given us no reason to believe he would. So the American people should get to decide."
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