The Death Of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

There are two major factors that affect the confirmation process of a president’s nominees; one is party affiliation. Party affiliation is very important when the Senate is confirming a nominee, because Senate confirms nominees by a ⅔ vote. This could be very crucial to the president and his or her nominee, because if the majority of the Senate is part of the opposing party, this becomes difficult for the president to get his nominee confirmed. The second political factor is qualification to become a judge or justice. The Senate does not want an unqualified judge who does not know what he or she is doing. It is important to the Senate to approve someone who has experience in the judicial field than someone who has no experience at all. The

This person is the Chief Justice. The Chief Justice and eight other associate judges are on the Supreme Court. They are the ones that look over the cases under the United States Constitution. The current Chief Justice is John Glover Roberts Jr. He is the seventeenth and most current person in this position. In 2005, he came into office after being nominated and approved by Congress during the time when George W. Bush was in office.

The above facts and details of appointments serve as great strengths for Greenburg, but there are also weaknesses she failed to touch on and include in this book. Greenburg fails to consider how the same scare-tactic rhetoric used by democratic and liberal senators nearly every time a conservative justice is nominated as well she only glances and summarizes the events of Thomas’ confirmation hearing and the attempted filibuster of Samuel Alito’s nomination. These accounts would have provided more information and context for the book to give a more well-rounded account of these appointments

In a recent event, one of Supreme Court Justices has passed away. Theoretically, the President would have to appoint a new justice and also have that nomination to be confirmed by the Senate. But recently Senate has declined to support Barack Obama approval on the new member of Justice. Now, statistically, the Senate is controlled by the Republicans by fifty four to forty six. This causes the Democrats to lose the majority in the Senate. Due to this Republicans are seeing this as a loophole to stop the nominations of a new Justice nominated in favor of a Democratic President. Instead of Congress members letting go of the rivalry in the two sets of parties, Republicans or known as the Senate has decided that it would be a good idea to leave only 8 Justices in the

If the Supreme Court Justices were subjected to term limits there confirmation hearings would be not as brutal. The Senate would know the appointee

The current Supreme Court membership is comprised of nine Supreme Court Justices. One of which is the Chief Justice and the other eight are the Associate Justices. The Justices are Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr., and Associate Justices: John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David H. Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer and Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr.

The Supreme Court of the United States is perhaps the most eminent judicial branch in the world and has served for a model for justice and democracy. However the Court is not exempted from scrutiny, and critics question the increasing politicized nature of the Court, from the appointment process to the nature of their decisions in landmark cases like; Dred Scott v. Sandford, Roe v. Wade to Bush v. Gore. Based on empirical evidence, this essay argues that the United States Supreme Court today is severely influenced by politics and not as much by law- at least in practice. Indeed, robust partisanship of the political interests of the President and Congress imposes on the constitutional function of the Court.

Democrats plan to filibuster the corset, setting up a big fight that could change the way the senate functioned over the last 50 years. It is steal evident that Senate Democrats are not happy over republicans refusal to give President Obama’s Supreme court nominee Merrick Garland a proper hearing. As minority leader Chuck Schumer said “ After careful deliberation, I have concluded that I cannot support Judge Neil Gorsuch nomination to the supreme court and I advise my colleagues to do so”. If this happens to be the case, Republicans would be left with the Nuclear option, which would set a new precedente in the senate. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham while reluctant to change the rules said he would support the nuclear option. In his own words “ whatever it takes to get him on the court, I'll do it”. The appointment of Judge Gorsuch will certainly reshape the way supreme court carries out its decisions in the future. Let us just hope that he understands that the constitution is the basic guideline to any decision making process rather than political influences from the trump administration or even the republican

NPR’s legal affairs correspondent, Nina Totenberg, described a “horrible political storm” brewing over the Supreme Court of the United States (“CNN,” 2016, p. 1). While reporting for CNN, Totenberg used these words to draw attention to the untimely death of Justice Antonin Scalia in an era of modern politics in which the court has become more polarized than ever. The Supreme Court, the highest court of the land, is not only being severely impacted by partisan ties, but is now also deciding cases according to these biased beliefs. The Democratic and Republican parties, after corrupting and encroaching upon the federal judiciary, have made court nominations and rulings into a game of party politics, inevitably destroying the impartiality of the

To begin with, the Constitution of the United States says the president. The Constitution does not require the Senate to respond to the nomination. When the president picks someone, the Senate does not have to hold hearings and vote.  The Senate can refuse to answer to the president’s pick.  Even though the

The United States government consists of three branches, with an important Supreme Court made up of nine justices. Hence, when Antonin Scalia died, it only makes sense that President Obama appoints another judge to fill in the spot. Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution elucidates this power by stating “[the president] shall nominate, by and with [a]dvice and [c]onsent of the Senate… [j]udges of the supreme Court.” In the periodical, “Obama Taps Merrick Garland as Supreme Court Nominee,” this clause demonstrates its power in two manners. First, Obama decides to nominate Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. Second, in the article, the Arkansas Attorney General paraphrases the Constitution and states that the “ Senate has an equal

The United States Supreme Court currently seats nine justices that vary in age, gender, and have many similarities and differences between them. Compared to other governmental figures the nine justices are not well known. Every time a new justice is added they are placed together wearing large black robe for photographs. The justices are responsible for reviewing petitions that are sent to them. These petitions can range from illegal locker searches to cases in which two lower courts have reached conflicting decisions. Their roles are significant as they give last chances to hopeless people.

This could be a factor in who or what Scalia wanted in his vacant seat. Therefore, it is important to leave the Justice's seat open to the Republican party for a more conservative court which was in Scalia interest for votes, and hopefully, we can see these same virtues out of Merricks decisions and votes in the seat. Although the threats have been strong from any Republican conservative to block or deflect any nominee made by Obama, they have been strong in this defence in following through to the next presidential inauguration. With the public announcement from Obama that Merrick is his nominated choice is going to create a shift in opinions and threats towards how and where to block Merricks acceptance process if he ever gets to it. (Johnson,

President Obama’s judicial candidates look dissimilar from their predecessors. For example, the bulk of President Obama’s appointments are women and nonwhite males. Forty-two percent of his judgeships

The role of politics in the Supreme Court became clear when the Senate rejected President Reagan’s Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork in 1987. Many people consider Bork one of the most qualified Supreme Court nominees ever, but his extremely conservative views on civil rights, abortion, and gender equality, among other issues, led to his 58-42 defeat in the Senate. The politicization of the Supreme Court is a widely-debated topic that often begins with the Justices themselves and the role of ideology. Some scholars argue that politics’ role in Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominees overshadows a nominee’s judicial philosophy and qualifications. A particular policy stance can impact the way the Senate and the