'Political battle after death Scalia '

amsterdam - The death Saturday of Chief Justice Antonin Scalia (79) marks the start of a political battle between Democrats and Republicans. The appointment of a new member of the Supreme Court can be an important issue in the long campaign for the upcoming presidential election.

The conservative and influential force Scalia, who was found dead in Texas, was the longest serving judge in the
Supreme Court: appointed in 1986 by then-President Ronald Reagan, a Republican. The remaining eight Supreme Court judges are neatly divided: four were appointed by a Republican White House Dweller, four by a Democratic president.

Now get Barack Obama, the man liberal laws under whose presidency as health insurance for everyone, given the opening of marriage for gay and experiments with the legalization of marijuana shape, the chance right at the end of his last term, a new member of the to appoint nine-member Supreme Court, and
Supreme Court as to tilt to the left.

Problem: Obama's nomination must be endorsed by the Senate, and that Republicans have a comfortable majority.

Leader of the
Grand Old Party Mitch McConnell throws directly by setting the cat among the pigeons that naming Scalia's successor should be postponed until after the presidential election. 'The American people should be able to decide on this matter,' said the Senator. He was immediately supported by party colleague and presidential candidate Ted Cruz.

Opposition Leader Harry Reid calls it 'outrageous' that the Supreme Court almost a year with a job to stay back. Clear rules about how quickly a new chief judge should be appointed are not there.

Obama did last night immediately pulling know nothing of the Republicans: he comes in the foreseeable future to come up with its own candidate. 'It is anyway one of the greatest battles in the history of the Senate,' predicts political analyst CNN. 'The Republicans look damn well how important a conservative majority in the
maintain Supreme Court. '

Should the Senate vote on a new chief judge be lifted over the election, then it need not be for division of the Republicans, their majority in the state Senate at the polls in November (simultaneously with the presidential election) very discussion. And then it just may happen that none other than former president Obama will be nominated and installed. Last week it was rumored that Hillary Clinton, the Harvard graduate lawyer and former Senator high on her list of possible Supreme Court judges.