Ding dong, the witch is dead! RIP, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia!

[thewayne]

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.

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[turk152.livejournal.com]

The President needs to go ahead, nominate a liberal and fight for it!

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

The problem is that the committee will stall it and prevent a floor vote, and when it gets to the floor, there's no way enough Republicans will defect and vote with the Dems to get past the 60 vote limit to get it done.

But what is likely to happen is the Repubs will stall it for as long as possible, then realize that it makes them look more and more like the obstructionist party as the election draws closer, and then they'll rush to approve someone. Obama will improve his chances of getting someone through if he nominates a more centrist person rather than a hard-core Democrat.

It's a Time Will Tell thing, to see who Obama puts forth, and to see how stupid the Republicans are capable of continuing to be.