Supreme Court Justice death.

[Johnny Dangerr]

This will be drug out to next year.......

[blacksunshine]

I'm not sure of the tmeline of rhe replacement procedure but the next SCOTUS session is supposed to start Feb 22. If BHO gets his person in, this country is hosed. You would like to think that he will have a hard time getting a lib past this congress but I have no faith in them either.

hell, he will just executive order them in.....s is about to htf.....

[dfkoon]

Sad. But I don't think bama will get a guy in. So next pres will get it.

[Bisch]

Did anyone read the comments at the bottom of the article? Liberals are a strange and twisted bunch!!!

Bisch

[Be10dwn]

Did anyone read the comments at the bottom of the article? Liberals are a strange and twisted bunch!!!

Bisch

Reading the comments on any news story is a good way to lose brain cells quickly

[Tower43]

Reading the comments on any news story is a good way to lose brain cells quickly

I know that it is some of the worst garbage I've ever read usually, but yet sometimes I still read it. Somehow the comment stupidity is addicting, I don't even know how to explain it

[Be10dwn]

I know tha tit is so e of the worst garbage I've ever read usually, but yet sometimes I still read it. Somehow the comment stupidity is addicting, I don't even know how to explain it

You can get sucked into the comment black hole very easily. It is a good way to feel better about yourself I guess

[Thumper]

Prayers sent.

[Thumper]

Sad. But I don't think bama will get a guy in. So next pres will get it.

"Recess appointments[edit]

When the Senate is in recess, a president may make temporary appointments to fill vacancies. Recess appointees hold office only until the end of the next Senate session (less than two years). The Senate must confirm the nominee for them to continue serving; of the two chief justices and six associate justices who have received recess appointments, only Chief Justice John Rutledge was not subsequently confirmed.

No president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has made a recess appointment to the Court, and the practice has become rare and controversial even in lower federal courts.[75] In 1960, after Eisenhower had made three such appointments, the Senate passed a "sense of the Senate" resolution that recess appointments to the Court should only be made in "unusual circumstances."[76] Such resolutions are not legally binding but are an expression of Congress's views in the hope of guiding executive action."

[Shane]

DANG IT!!!!!

Prayers for his family and for our nation.

[bowhuntntxn]

hell, he will just executive order them in.....s is about to htf.....

Not sure that is even a possibility. Now rushing to appointment and trying to fast track a confirmation isn't out of the realm of possibility, but EO is used to create law, not appoint SCOTUS justices.

[twobittxn]

"Recess appointments[edit]

When the Senate is in recess, a president may make temporary appointments to fill vacancies. Recess appointees hold office only until the end of the next Senate session (less than two years). The Senate must confirm the nominee for them to continue serving; of the two chief justices and six associate justices who have received recess appointments, only Chief Justice John Rutledge was not subsequently confirmed.

No president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has made a recess appointment to the Court, and the practice has become rare and controversial even in lower federal courts.[75] In 1960, after Eisenhower had made three such appointments, the Senate passed a "sense of the Senate" resolution that recess appointments to the Court should only be made in "unusual circumstances."[76] Such resolutions are not legally binding but are an expression of Congress's views in the hope of guiding executive action."

The senate will be back in session the 19th. No recess appointment.

[18ncs]

Not sure that is even a possibility. Now rushing to appointment and trying to fast track a confirmation isn't out of the realm of possibility, but EO is used to create law, not appoint SCOTUS justices.

I believe Senator Jeff Sessions is on the Committee that approves the nomination. I feel good about this.

DANG IT!!!!!

Prayers for his family and for our nation.

Ditto...prayers sent. The Constitution has lost a real friend. One of my thoughts on the Presidential Election has been who do I want proposing Supreme Court Justices. I did not think about Justice Scalia being one.

[Tmag]

Sad deal, prayers for his family.

[Tony Pic]

Scary times ahead gentlemen. Sad to lose a conservative on the SC.
Prayers for the Scalia family.
Trey Gowdy for SCOTUS. Naa...he would be wasted there. Be a better Attorney General.
Lets walk the PC line here a bit and speculate.
Condi Rice. Woman, Black, Smart conservative, lawyer. Knows how the world works.
Has had real life experience.
Then who?