Republican presidential candidate Florida Senator Marco Rubio stated that he has “a doubt” over whether fellow candidate Donald Trump would “replace Justice Scalia with someone just like Justice Scalia” during Thursday’s CNN Republican debate. Rubio said that while Trump said
Rafael Cruz tells Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon the Supreme Court is one of the most important issues in this election.
Two conservative law professors at Georgetown have adopted the rhetoric of the regressive left in their objection to post-mortem critiques of the late Justice Antonin Scalia from liberal colleagues, claiming conservative law students are “traumatized” by such critiques.
Speaking to the nation’s governors at the National Governors Association meeting at the White House on Tuesday, Barack Obama cracked a joke that implicitly referred to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death only days after Obama refused to attend the justice’s funeral.
At the funeral of Justice Antonin Scalia, his son Paul, giving the homily, cited his father’s belief that the success of America arose from the blessing of God — a blessing experienced in part because of faith’s role in the life of this nation.
WASHINGTON D.C. — All eleven Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee — including Chairman Chuck Grassley — have sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, informing the Kentucky Senator that the committee will not hold any hearings on President Barack Obama’s forthcoming nominee to take the seat left open by Justice Antonin Scalia’s unexpected death.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will not hold hearings on a Supreme Court nominee until the American people have voted and a new president is in the White House.
Days after the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Georgetown Law Professor Gary Peller wrote in an email to his colleagues and Georgetown University Law Center Dean William M. Treanor that Justice Scalia “was a defender of privilege, oppression and bigotry, one whose intellectual positions were not brilliant but simplistic and formalistic.”
Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) says President Obama should nominate and the Senate should consider a replacement to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Vice President Joe Biden spoke out forcefully against appointing a new Supreme Court justice in an election year–in 1992, when he was chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and George H.W. Bush was running for re-election.
On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125 from 7PM to 10PM EST, host and Breitbart News Chairman Stephen K. Bannon will be joined by co-host, Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow. Bannon and Marlow will be talking about the Democrat and Republican presidential primary races, Justice Antonin Scalia’s funeral, and much more.
Saturday, the funeral services of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be held in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. at 11 a.m. ET.
Amidst the rich legacy that Justice Antonin Scalia left to the American people after more than 30 years serving on the Supreme Court, his last and one of his greatest statements against judicial activism came after the notorious 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that trampled the democratic process, legislating same-sex marriage for all 50 states.
Columnist Pat Buchanan argued that President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee should be rejected to prevent him from transforming the court on Friday’s “McLaughlin Group.” Buchanan said Obama’s nominee “should be treated with respect. Not the way Bob Bork was, not
New York Times columnist David Brooks argued Republicans “should consider” President Obama’s Supreme Court pick because “the Constitution says the president nominates” on Friday’s “PBS NewsHour.” Brooks said, [relevant remarks begin around 11:15] “Well, of course they should consider. I mean,
Thousands of people took upwards of three hours and more on the chilly streets of Washington D.C. Friday to pay their final respects, even if only for a moment, to Justice Antonin Scalia, whose body lay in repose in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court.
Bidding farewell to their longtime colleague, the eight remaining Supreme Court justices joined family members, former law clerks and members of the public Friday in paying their respects to Antonin Scalia in a tradition-laden, solemn day at the marble courthouse atop Capitol Hill.
On February 18, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said President Obama will nominate a replacement for Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court in “a little over three weeks.”
Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) are refusing — at this point — to say whether they would support an Obama nominee to the United States Supreme Court to
Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argued that Republicans are saying, “You can’t vote on anything” while defending her filibuster of Samuel Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court during Thursday’s Clinton-Sanders Town Hall on MSNBC. Hillary, in
Philip Wegmann writes at The Daily Signal: “four pro-gun Democrats in the Senate didn’t respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment about whether they would support an Obama nominee who opposes the Second Amendment.”
GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) was received at the Conservative Review convention with a standing ovation from thousands of attendees, as he took the stage at the packed Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina.
The GOP leader of the Senate, Sen. Mitch McConnell, and the chairman of the Senate’s judiciary committee, Sen. Chuck Grassley, are singing a choreographed and harmonious rejection of the Democratic Senators who want to quickly replace Justice Antonin Scalia with an appointee from President Barack Obama.
Standing in front of the Supreme Court Thursday, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) called on President Obama to nominate somebody to the Supreme Court who will repudiate his administration’s propensity for circumventing Congress with executive actions.
A wealth of conspiracy theories have followed the sudden and shocking death of 79-year-old Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, with many people suspicious of the circumstances surrounding the jurist’s demise. But Scalia’s own son is now pleading for an end to the “hurtful” speculation.
Republican presidential candidate Texas Senator Ted Cruz argued that if fellow candidate Donald Trump is president “we will see liberals on the court, and we will see our rights taken away” and that he fears the same is true if
My dear fellow Americans, all Italian Americans, U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, and President Obama: I am appalled to have learned that President Obama will not attend Justice Scalia’s funeral. Mr. President, Italian Lives Matter. It is an egregious, negligent, disrespectful mistake–and quite revealing.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) are already predicting Senate Republicans will back away from their initial vows to block President Obama’s nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
ABC’s “The View” co-host Joy Behar argued that President Obama’s “color” “has something to do with” Senate Republicans vowing to block his Supreme Court nominee on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The View.” After saying that she thinks Obama will put a
When news of Antonin Scalia’s death spread Feb. 13, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was quick to point to “80 years” of precedent against confirming a Supreme Court justice during an election year, suggesting Scalia’s replacement is for the next president to choose, rather than for President Barack Obama.
In early October of 1987, when President Ronald Reagan had more than a year left on his final term that would end in January of 1989, The New York Times editorial board openly championed the idea of the United States
CNN chief national correspondent John King predicted that if President Barack Obama can’t get his Supreme Court nominee through the Senate, he’ll argue “that Republicans blocked him because he’s the first African-American president, and they didn’t give it to him
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) refused last year to intercede and reverse a Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruling that upheld the “assault weapons” ban in Chicago’s Highland Park. Associate Justice Clarence Thomas dissented–Antonin Scalia joining him–suggesting that wordsmiths were finding categories of guns to ban by listing types of firearms outside those explicitly in focus in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008).
George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley stated that while he thinks it would be good for the Senate to give a hearing to President Obama’s nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, “There is no requirement for them to take up a
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) told host Megyn Kelly there was little chance that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) would allow any nominee appointed by President Barack Obama to fill the Supreme
During the February 14 airing of Meet the Press, Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz said the Second Amendment would be “written out of the Constitution” during a Donald Trump presidency because of judicial choices Trump would make.
Slate magazine claimed Feb. 16 that the death of Antonin Scalia makes the seminal gun rights case District of Columbia v Heller into the new Roe v Wade.
Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) once tried to convince Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to abandon the Supreme Court to run as Sen. Bob Dole’s running mate in the 1996 presidential election.
Justice Antonin Scalia’s bench chair and the bench in front of it at the Supreme Court are draped with a black wool crepe in his memory.
On Tuesday’s “Place for Politics,” MSNBC host and political correspondent Steve Kornacki reacted to Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s denunciations of vows to block President Obama’s replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia by pointing out
