Commentary

Constitutional Text and History Favor Senate Republicans on Scalia Vacancy, Not Obama

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, February 18 2016

"The President ... shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court...." —United States Constitution, Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 In the deepening partisan dispute over the U.S. Supreme Court vacancy following Justice Antonin Scalia's passing, at least credit Barack Obama and his transparently cynical apologists for providing comic relief in their effort to cast themselves as sudden constitutional textualists. During a press conference this week, Obama…

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