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Wow. Apparently he passed in his sleep, he was vacationing at a luxury hunting ranch in West Texas.
This will have a major effect on the election cycle. Two candidates, plus the President of the Senate, says Obama shouldn't nominate anyone for the position and if he does, they won't get approved. The process is that the nominee has to pass the Senate Judiciary Committee, then by the full Senate. And they have to have a 60 vote majority.
I'll write more on this tomorrow, it's not easy posting in a moving car on the interstate typing on an iPad.
This will have a major effect on the election cycle. Two candidates, plus the President of the Senate, says Obama shouldn't nominate anyone for the position and if he does, they won't get approved. The process is that the nominee has to pass the Senate Judiciary Committee, then by the full Senate. And they have to have a 60 vote majority.
I'll write more on this tomorrow, it's not easy posting in a moving car on the interstate typing on an iPad.
