Without a new justice, Obama gets brutal to the right TEMPORARY wins. If he is allowed to replace Scalia with a lifetime appointment, the U.S. Constitution is dead and so is any chance of the right winning anything short of a revolution.
Exactly. We went through this 50 years ago with the Warren Court, and it was nothing short of national disaster. Much of the destruction of our culture and good government stems directly from Warren Court rulings. A lifetime appointment cannot be undone. It is too dangerous.
We've been lucky the past 25 years to have almost perfect balance on the Court, pleasing and displeasing both sides equally. To permanently install a new justice that would tip the balance too far to a level that we know from recent history will be damaging to the nation is foolish.
There have been calls for Obama to make a recess appointment the next time the Senate goes out of session. Let him. But as for a lifetime appointment, after his last two have been reliable lapdogs voting in favor of almost every proposal he has put forth, he can't be trusted to make a good decision.