Point of clarification needed.
Obama can nominate a candidate for the now open position.
Who can be appointed with the consensus of both houses of congress.
Which will not happen.

Are you jealous that others may have been led in their lives by GOD? He has not been banned from our country yet.....just from public.

I hope you right, the country will see what has been said over and over again, the repubs are the party of NO. Pathetic!

You should be ashamed, mr. holier than thou, for using Gods name in your lying comment.

So, the left has killed another conservative off that has gotten in their way. Very convenient that it happened at this time. Very convenient.

The comment, unfortunately for the country, is true. The lies come from the extreme left. And I was beseeching God to help, not to validate the statement. All in all, your response rates a 2 out of 10, and that's generous. Wake up!

I wish they would have said NO more often. Too bad the Dems are like the spoiled kid's parents, and never say no to their kids. Liberals are the result of an unlimited government with an undisciplined president. Another example of affirmative action failure.

Scalia screwed the average person while he was in there, now he screwed the repubs by dying. You will have lost the advantage you had, now get ready for another liberal in the court. What country will you go to to escape the terrible liberal court?

and one more thing: It's not a holier than thou attitude, just a much smarter than you attitude

Not worried, a liberal will never get confirmed by the senate

Thanks to a VC commenter, I discovered that in August 1960, the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a resolution, S.RES. 334, “Expressing the sense of the Senate that the president should not make recess appointments to the Supreme Court, except to prevent or end a breakdown in the administration of the Court’s business.” Each of President Eisenhower’s SCOTUS appointments had initially been a recess appointment who was later confirmed by the Senate, and the Democrats were apparently concerned that Ike would try to fill any last-minute vacancy that might arise with a recess appointment. Not surprisingly, the Republicans objected, insisting that the Court should have a full complement of Justices at all times. Of course, the partisan arguments will be exactly the opposite this time.

GOD is not banned but religion is!!!! You are free to believe anything you want as this country support freedom of religion but that also means the rest of us are entitled freedom FROM your religion.

Let's go to the tape as that very right wing Senator Cruz said

WE HAVE 80 YEARS OF PRECEDENT OF NOT CONFIRMING SUPREME COURT JUSTICES IN AN ELECTION YEAR!

Liar liar pants on fire!!!!!

Ted Cruz Gets Called Out By Debate Moderator For Making Up Facts About The Supreme Court | ThinkProgress

Happened at the debate and Ronald Reagan appointed Justice Kennedy in 87 who was confirmed in 88.

That was the best part of the debate!!!!

Geez I thought liberals were pot smoking hippies in the 60's all those Flower children.

So Obama invented liberals? What are you smoking?

Another fun fact about Kennedy's appointment and conformation.....

Guess who voted, in the election year, for Kennedy? Mitch McConnell

HYPOCRITE!!!!!!

Who would of thunk that?