Controversial in the United States on the selection of the highest judicial body
Controversial in the United States on the selection of the highest judicial body
15.02.2016 9:53
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provoked the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the judges of the US Supreme Court the most conservative, debate about the process of selecting Khalif him in the highest judicial body in the country.
US President Barack Obama said he will nominate a successor to the late judge, but the Republicans asked him to wait until the election of a new president.
Before the death of Scalia, the conservatives Ihzawn majority among the members of the US Supreme Court by a 5-4.
And was able to Supreme Court blocking the Obama administration’s efforts with regard to immigration laws and climate change.
but with the death of Scalia, there is a state of equilibrium between the members of the Court by 4.4 between liberals and conservatives.
appoints Supreme Court judges by the US President, with the consent of the Senate, and they remain in office for life.
dominated Republicans on the Senate , which may delay the decision until after the presidential election in 2016
was the death of Scalia came 11 months from the end of the presidential term of Obama, who belongs to the Democratic Party before.
so the Senate Republicans would face enormous pressure from conservatives to do anything to delay the appointment of any alternative until the election a new president in a January 20, 2017, according to Anthony Zhukar, BBC correspondent in Washington.
He hopes the conservatives to take a Republican alternative to Scalia label, in order to maintain the majority of conservatives in the Senate.
it refers to our correspondent that the longer it took to Council Senate to ratify the candidate of the US Supreme Court was 125 days.
and will continue to the US Supreme Court to hear cases during the current presidential term, with or without evidence to Scalia, including a case involving the rights of abortion.
the judges, who were appointed by the heads of Democrats were: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 82, and Sonia Stomiur 61-year-old Stephen Brier, 77, and Elena Kagan, 55 years old, and they make up the liberal wing.
The judges, who were appointed by the heads of Republicans, are: John Roberts, 61, and Clarence Tunas, 67, and Anthony Kennedy, 79, and Samuel Alito, 65, who make up Mahafez.anthy wing
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