The following is from Warren's FB post. She's right, especially since Scalia was a strict Constitutional literalist, and the Constitution is quite clear on this. Here's Warren:
"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."
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