Honoring Justice Scalia

Justice Scalia’s judicial philosophy was based on “originalism,” or what he thought the Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution.  

I think he often misinterpreted, but that is what he believed.

Now there is a movement among Republican Senators to delay the appointment of a new justice until after the next presidential election.  I went to the Constitution to see if this is what the Founding Fathers intended.

The relevant section is in Article II, Section 2.  In the second paragraph of that Section, the President has the power, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to nominate Judges of the Supreme Court.  

I read that whole Article, and there is nothing in there about “except during the last year of the President’s term in office.”  Where are the Republicans like Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell getting their ideas?  Certainly not from the Founding Fathers.  I’m pretty sure Scalia would have been appalled.