Republican arguments for next president to choose Antonin Scalia’s successor lack legitimacy within structure and supreme court precedents,experts sayRepublican calls for Barack Obama to refrain from nominating a successor to deceased supreme court justice Antonin Scalia are “odd” and “absurd”, according to constitutional scholars and experts. “The arguments that they are making – that this is a matter of principle – are nonsense, or ” said Michael Dorf,professor of constitutional law at Cornell Law School. “It’s just that they politically want some different kind of nominee.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com