U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren

One of the most vocal and liberal Senators currently serving (and personal favorite), Senator Warren put out a statement regarding Justice Scalia's recent death and the GOP's intention to wait over a year to fill the position in hopes that they retake the White House in November:

The sudden death of Justice Scalia creates an immediate vacancy on the most important court in the United States. 

Senator McConnell is right that the American people should have a voice in the selection of the next Supreme Court justice. In fact, they did — when President Obama won the 2012 election by five million votes. 

Article II Section 2 of the Constitution says the President of the United States nominates justices to the Supreme Court, with the advice and consent of the Senate. I can't find a clause that says "...except when there's a year left in the term of a Democratic President." 

Senate Republicans took an oath just like Senate Democrats did. Abandoning the duties they swore to uphold would threaten both the Constitution and our democracy itself. It would also prove that all the Republican talk about loving the Constitution is just that — empty talk.

That is exactly what I thought a couple days ago!!

The people have already had a voice in who should fill a Supreme Court vacancy when they elected the current President. Why should he just defer such an important duty of his office to the next occupant just because he belongs to a party that isn't the one that dead asshole belonged to?