During President Obama’s press conference on Tuesday, there was a funny and forthright moment when the president addressed the type of jurist he intends to nominate to Justice Antonin Scalia’s vacant Supreme Court seat. A reporter asked Obama if his earlier comments in the press conference meant that he was “likely to choose a moderate nominee.” Before the reporter could even finish his question, Obama blurted out, to laughter, “No.” He quickly added: “You shouldn’t assume anything about the qualifications of the nominee other than they’re going to be well-qualified.”
The current conventional wisdom is that a so-called moderate nominee would have a better chance of being confirmed and would better reflect what the country should want from President Obama’s next justice than one more strongly aligned with progressive jurisprudence.
Full story: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2016/02/obama_should_nominate_a_liberal_antonin_scalia.html
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