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February 17, 2016

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Court Opening Launches

Flight in Key Senate Races

By Deidre Shagreen and Paul Singer

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics

After Antonin Scalia’s death President Obama’s choice was to nominate someone

because of Scalia’s death. Scalia was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of

the United States from 1986. He was a reliable vote against abortion rights, gay

marriages, affirmative action, and other political charged questions before the court. A

few hours after his death, the Republican Senators in battleground states from

Pennsylvania to Arizona were all opposing to any nominee president Obama picks,

stating that the next president should make the pick instead of president Obama. But

the Democrats were against this; they state that it doesn’t matter who makes the pick

because it is very important to the other Supreme Court Justices. The Republicans also

think that the American people should have a voice in the next selection of their next

Supreme Court justice.

I think that the president has the right to nominate anyone who he thinks should take the

place of Scalia because it is very important to have the nine Supreme Court Justices no

matter what. However the political debate is erupting the prospective nominees to fill

the vacancy is very unseeingly. Obama also mentioned that there are a lot of

republican senators who are going to be under a lot of pressure from various special

interests and various constituencies and many of theirvoters to not let any nominee go

through, no matter who he nominates. I also think that whoever Obama choose is

appointed to determine the outcome of the whole situation.