Justice Anton Scalia Reportedly Found Dead At Texas Resort

Until Obama puts up a candidate and the Senate does it's thing, it's political hot air so far as I am concerned

Re: McGentrix (Post 6129112)
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Until Obama puts up a candidate and the Senate does it's thing, it's political hot air so far as I am concerned
what? all of a sudden you display reticence?

BOSTON — Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said late Wednesday that partisan extremism is damaging the public’s perception of the role of the Supreme Court, recasting the justices as players in the political process rather than its referees.

Divisive battles over confirmations and mischaracterization of the merits of the court’s decisions worry him, Roberts told a ballroom crowd of about 1,000 people at a celebration of Law Day at New England Law-Boston, a private law school.

...“That suggests to me that the process is being used for something other than ensuring the qualifications of the nominees,” said the 61-year-old chief justice.

“When you have a sharply political, divisive hearing process, it increases the danger that whoever comes out of it will be viewed in those terms,” he said. “If the Democrats and Republicans have been fighting so furiously about whether you’re going to be confirmed, it’s natural for some member of the public to think, well, you must be identified in a particular way as a result of that process.

Sure, have Obama nominate someone. Then let's see if the Senate will approve.

Sure, have Obama nominate someone. Then let's see if the Senate will approve.

While Scalia’s originalism certainly has its disciples among conservatives, with his death, Ginsburg’s vision of a living Constitution becomes more likely to prevail. President Obama (or his successor) has a chance to appoint at least one more liberal to the Supreme Court. That would give the court a liberal majority for the first time since 1971. It would allow the court to resume the progressive push — on issues including school desegregation, reproductive rights, organized labor and voting rights — that stalled almost a half-century ago. It would enable a revival of a dramatically different role for the court: as an institution that drives social change instead of halting it.

Before President Richard Nixon’s four conservative appointments abruptly tilted the court to the right, the country was in the middle of a social revolution, or what we now call the Sixties. Relations of race, gender and, less obviously, class were mutating at warp speed. The federal courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, were at the heart of the transformations...

War is coming.

At least we know which side has the guns.