President Barack Obama and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

constitutional duty: Leaders in the Republican-led Senate want to prevent President Barack Obama from fulfilling his constitutional duty to nominate someone to fill Scalia vacancy, and have threatened to refuse to consider anyone he puts forward, according to Toronto Star. It shameful partisan politics, and it dishonours Scalia memory as a staunch conservative who revered the U.S. Constitution and read it literally. But even so avid a hunter as the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia might flinch at the rancour that has erupted in the wake of his unexpected death on the weekend. Sen. Clearly they hope to thwart a Democratic president from putting forward a liberal jurist who might tip the court in a progressive 5-4 direction. Mitch McConnell and other Republicans contend that only Obama successor can legitimately fill the vacancy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.