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Fight Over Scalia replacement heats up as Democrats demand vote this year
Washington Times ^ | 23 Feb 2016 | Steve Dinnin

Posted on 02/13/2016 3:54:13 PM PST by fella

The battle over replacing Justice Antonin Scalia was already underway Saturday afternoon, an unseemly few hours after news of his death shook Washington, with Democrats insisting President Obama should be able to name a quick replacement.

With the court now divided between four Republican-appointed justices and four Democratic picks, Mr. Obama would have a chance to tilt the bench decidedly to the left, and liberal lawmakers said he should have that chance.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 114th; bho44; scalia; scotusnominee
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To: 1rudeboy

yes we started it before they got the last medical devise out or from his warm body


41 posted on 02/13/2016 4:06:07 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom yes I know)
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To: fella

0bama will need a liberal majority on the SC in order to sustain his martial law enactment later this year.


42 posted on 02/13/2016 4:06:20 PM PST by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: fella

Anyone who expected otherwise is delusional.


43 posted on 02/13/2016 4:06:36 PM PST by Ronin (Blackface or bolt-ons, it's the same fraud. - Norm Lenhart)
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To: VanDeKoik

Oh please we don’t even have that


44 posted on 02/13/2016 4:06:59 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom yes I know)
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To: jimpick

Let’s hope and pray he holds to this.


45 posted on 02/13/2016 4:07:18 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Red Steel

New cases won’t come about until about October.


46 posted on 02/13/2016 4:07:44 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: fella; All
”. . . , Mr. Obama would have a chance to tilt the bench decidedly to the left, and liberal lawmakers said he should have that chance."

After 7+ years of corrupt Congress letting lawless Obama steal legislative branch powers, much of those powers actually 10th Amendment-protected state powers stolen from the states, Democrats are unsurprisingly clueless as to why many patriots are now supporting candidate Trump.

47 posted on 02/13/2016 4:08:00 PM PST by Amendment10
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Cruz! Trump! Democrats! Republicans! This year! Next year...

Should somebody call the family?

48 posted on 02/13/2016 4:08:19 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: fella

Power and control is all the Rat criminals care about. Like predators fighting over a carcass. McConnell had better do his job....


49 posted on 02/13/2016 4:08:42 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: House Atreides

Sen. Yertle and his cohorts - Hatch, Graham, McCain, Cornyn - will cave at some point.


50 posted on 02/13/2016 4:09:35 PM PST by twister881
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To: Lazamataz

Then we’ll need a leader to help us take our country back...

i said the same thing then, HAD TO win Ohio and Florida BOTH times.

what if one day we didn’t. That came in ‘08.

I wont recognize the dem winner.

But tomorrow for battle, tonight for mourning.


51 posted on 02/13/2016 4:09:42 PM PST by dp0622
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To: fella

Should have won the Senate, Rats. There is a reason the American people threw you out. Allowing Obama to put leftists a on the Supreme Court was one of them.


52 posted on 02/13/2016 4:09:48 PM PST by KansasGirl
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To: fella

Why do the rats want a vote this year?

It does not take a rocket scientist to figure that out.


53 posted on 02/13/2016 4:10:13 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Delegate count to date: Trump 18, Cruz 10, Rubot 9, Kasich 4, Carson 3, Yebe 3, Fior 1)
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To: fella
The battle over replacing Justice Antonin Scalia was already underway Saturday afternoon,

Typical MSM crap thrown on the wall.......ain't nobody in their offices today, it's Saturday.

Waiting for the arguments to begin, that's what they love.........

54 posted on 02/13/2016 4:11:25 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: fella

Elections have consequences...?


55 posted on 02/13/2016 4:11:25 PM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Lazamataz
If that wasn't a clear indication of the exact balance point...

That may be the balance point for a middle-of-the-road Repub, but I'd maintain that the last Articulate Conservative to run that achieved not one, but two landslides, would be the case again.

56 posted on 02/13/2016 4:11:54 PM PST by C210N (Supporting the Constitutional Conservative in the race. Constitutional Conservative Cruz.)
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To: 1rudeboy

The divisions in this country are such that the left is celebrating much like the Palestinians did on 9/11. The President may well inject racism into this tragic death by immediately nominating AG Loretta Lynch for the vacancy. She just recently won approval by the Senate by a wide margin for Attorney General.

The future of the republic hangs by a thread.

Even if the position remains vacant for a year, Roberts may vote with the liberal contingent to expand the powers of the executive and validate the power grabs of this president.


57 posted on 02/13/2016 4:12:09 PM PST by JimSEA
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To: pgyanke

That’s what Justice Roberts said!


58 posted on 02/13/2016 4:14:42 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: fella

Thr republicans will bend over for Harry Reid. This country is in a downward spiral. As russia says the cold war ain’t over. They helped to put a muslim homosexual in the white house, now the democrats are positioning a criminal and a communist to be the new Resident. How long will it take before they say they have won the cold war.


59 posted on 02/13/2016 4:15:48 PM PST by seawolf101
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To: fella

They haven’t even done an autopsy on him yet to find out the cause of his death, and the RATS are crying for a vote. Granted the man was 79, and none of us know of any health issues he dealt with. With that in mind, I’m going to wait until the Coroner issues an official report on what he died from.


60 posted on 02/13/2016 4:15:49 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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