Remplacement d'Antonin Scalia: un parcours ardu

L'opposition républicaine à une nomination d'Obama sera farouche. Le Président désigne un successeur, mais le Sénat doit approuver. Va-t-on accepter la nomination d'un candidat progressiste pour prendre le siège du champion des conservateurs? Déjà les leaders républicains avancent que comme il ne reste qu'une année à la présidence Obama on devrait attendre l'entrée en fonction de son successeur.

 "Obama’s first two appointments to the court were relatively easy because Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were replacing liberal-leaning justices.

Senate conservatives, already predisposed to not approve of Obama’s choice, might be loath to allow him to replace their judicial hero with a liberal jurist who would tip the court in a left-leaning direction.

 If Republicans leave the Scalia seat vacant for any lengthy time, that sets up the possibility of a series of deadlocked four-to-four votes in which the ruling of the lower federal court would stand as the law of that particular region of the country."

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