Scalia just died (really). How will this affect the race?

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

There are no moderate Supreme Court Justices or Senators. Why is that so hard for Atlas to understand? lol

Moderate is a very subjective term......

As Atlas proves over and over again.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

For Christ's sake.

It's the President's prerogative to nominate someone for the Supreme Court. The Senate's role to determine their suitability and vote aye or nay. Unless the GOP wants the SC to be useless for a year, they need to do their actual jobs.

The public doesn't know or care about all of the judicial appointments they blocked, because they're Obama's nominees. A Supreme Court justice is something else, and if they try the same bull****, it will blow up in their faces, I guarantee it.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

The Senate doesn't have the privilege of picking whoever they want for the court.

If the candidates don't mention it themselves, it at least comes up in debates on cable news, written articles, etc. It's part of the job and Obama should be allowed to fulfill it.

But we do have the privilege of shooting down anyone Obama tries to appoint. Obama has the right to nominate whoever he wants, but not to flat out fully appoint them.

If the Senate blocks a reasonable nominee, Obama should call them out every single day on it. Every single day.

He'd sound like an idiot and nobody would care

I disagree. This is the Supreme Court, this can be framed extremely badly for the GOP.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I think this is definitely good news for Hilldog in the primary because she's widely perceived as more electable, but I also think it's good news for Sanders if he somehow makes it through to the general because, though Sanders' floor is pretty high anyways in this polarized age, NO Democrats will defect or stay home now no matter who the Republican nominee is.

Hillary was the one who was weaker in the general election.