“Pursuing their radical strategy in a quixotic quest to deny the basic fact that the American people elected President Obama — twice — would rank among the most rash and reckless actions in the history of the Senate. And the consequences will reverberate for decades,” Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) wrote in an op-ed published at The Washington Post.
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the leading voice of the U.S. video games industry, gave a glowing tribute to the late Justice Antonin Scalia for his pioneering efforts to extend First Amendment protections to video games.
Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that the replacement of Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court is “the moment of his life” for Senate Majority Leader Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and that any obstructionism charges pale in comparison to what would happen
Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that “we need Supreme Court justices” who see the “very pernicious effects” of the Voting Rights Act and Citizens United rulings and “would be looking for people who understood that” to
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who voted against cloture for Samuel Alito’s Supreme Court nomination, stated that a filibuster of President Obama’s nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia would be “totally unprecedented” but that there have been “show filibusters”
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), who voted against cloture for Justice Samuel Alito, argued that it “would be the height of irresponsibility for the Republican leadership not to have a vote on a nominee from the president” to replace recently deceased
News reports of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death have mentioned that he experienced a “shoulder injury” last week, for which he visited his doctor and had an MRI.
On the third Monday of February, Americans celebrate George Washington’s Birthday, often inappropriately called “Presidents Day.” Even more unfortunately, this holiday doesn’t even fall on Washington’s Birthday due to the Uniform Monday Holiday Bill, which pushed numerous holidays to Monday in order to create more three-day weekends. Washington’s real birthday does not occur until February 22.
On the Fox News Channel on Sunday, former UN Ambassador John Bolton argued that Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will make Antonin Scalia’s replacement an issue, as will Hillary Clinton, something he views as a positive development Bolton,
On Sunday, California governor Jerry Brown slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s statement that the Senate should wait until after the presidential election to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Conspiracy theories are beginning to swirl in the aftermath of the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who was found dead at 79 in his room on Saturday morning at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in Texas.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) interviewed with Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” and the Democratic presidential hopeful remembered U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin, who passed away in his sleep Saturday. Although Sanders explained he had “very different points
The iconic conservative justice, who died Saturday at age 79, left an indelible stamp on the nation’s courts, its laws, and its understanding of itself.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the nation mourns the passing of Justice Antonin Scalia, talk on Capitol Hill is raging about the possibility that President Barack Obama will fill the seat of the deceased conservative lion and how Sen. Mitch McConnell can block Obama by moving quickly to recall the Senate.
Do not pretend and accept the developing narrative that paints this as just political gamesmanship. This is about the future of America and our place as the dominant good actor on the world stage.
During the February 14 airing of This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz stressed that the Senate cannot allow Democrats to use Antonin Scalia’s death to erase the Second Amendment by writing it out of the constitution.
The Feb. 13 death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia gives progressives on the Supreme Court an opportunity to gut the Second Amendment by reinterpreting it as a limited, collective right rather than individual right.
The death of Justice Antonin Scalia will have an immediate impact on a Texas case scheduled for oral argument March 2nd at the U.S. Supreme Court. The court is set to hear a lawsuit claiming that a Texas law unconstitutionally limits access to abortions in the state.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” veteran journalist Bob Woodward downplayed the possibilities of President Barack Obama using executive fiat to fulfill a Supreme Court vacancy after fill-in host Dana Bash asked if the replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said Saturday that “We should not allow a judge to be appointed” by President Obama.
With news of the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the Obama White House and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton are already staking a position that President Obama, and not his successor, should appoint Scalia’s replacement. But it’s useful to remember that one key members of the Obama administration – Vice President Joe Biden – once had a very different opinion on the Senate’s ability to block a president’s nominee.
Sen. Marco Rubio does not believe that President Obama should nominate a Supreme Court Justice to replace Justice Antonin Scalia who passed away today in Texas.
Pundit, author, Constitutional law expert, and former appellate court clerk Ann Coulter joined host Stephen K. Bannon on a Breitbart News Radio special Saturday night to discuss the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died today of apparent natural causes, according to officials, after attending a private party at the Cibolo Creek Ranch in Texas. In memory of his long career of constitutional originalism on the Supreme Court and his characteristic wit and good humor, here is a list of some of his greatest quotes:
During Saturday night’s South Carolina Republican debate, when questioned on the issue of replacing late-Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, John Kasich said that if President Obama is going to nominate someone, he hoped the president would “pick somebody that’s going
At Saturday night’s GOP Presidential debates, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said that Republicans need to take a more aggressive stance in getting conservatives nominated to the Supreme Court and “fight and fight and fight” to get them though the nominating
Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders offered gracious and sincere condolences after Justice Antonin Scalia passed away Saturday of apparent natural causes.
During Saturday’s Republican presidential debate on CBS, Gov. John Kasich (R-OH) urged President Barack Obama to not nominate a successor for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Kasich said he wants Obama to “put the country first” “just for once” and
Republican presidential frontrunner Donald J. Trump said during the GOP Debate in South Carolina on Saturday night that in the wake of the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the Senate should “delay, delay, delay” and prevent President Barack Obama from appointing someone to fill the vacancy.
President Obama reacted to the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after wrapping up his golf game in California this afternoon.
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest and the intellectual leader of the modern conservative movement, said on Saturday evening that the nation has suffered a tremendous loss with the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that Republicans “dishonor” the Constitution by pledging to block President Obama’s nominees to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
On Fox News Channel’s special coverage of the passing of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) called in to remember the Scalia, who was found dead Saturday in a West Texas Ranch apparently by natural causes. Sessions praised Scalia for fighting to keep
After learning the news of the February 13 death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) issued a statement praising Scalia’s intellect and made clear the Senate must hold to “80 years” of precedent in not
Saturday on MSNBC on the news of Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing, network host Rachel Maddow speculated on what she thought could happen in terms of a replacement for Scalia. Maddow suggested Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson as
Republican presidential candidate Gov. John Kasich called Antonin Scalia an “essential” force for conservatism in a statement following the Supreme Court Justice’s death on Saturday.
The late Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was a bulwark for the individual right to keep and bear arms. He voted with the majority in the seminal case of District of Columbia v Heller (2008), a decision that defended the
WASHINGTON—Justice Antonin Scalia—one of the most acclaimed legal scholars ever to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States—has passed away at age 79.
President Obama was on the golf course this afternoon when the news broke that Justice Antonin Scalia had passed away.
Within one hour of news breaking that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died in his sleep, progressives on Twitter put politics before basic human decency–both celebrating and mocking his death.
