I dissent that the fight for appointment begins with Obama's choice...

It began with Mc Connel when he claimed Obama can not select a replacement in an election year in an unprecedented mere 6 hours after discovering Scalia's body. (before he was cold)

Perhaps Obama's term as a black President is only 3/5s a long in Mc Connell's mind, but President does have the responsibility and duty to appoint a justice,


Scalia is known for being the longest serving Justice and an originalist interpreter of the Constitution which is much the same as how a fundamentalist interprets the bible. His most famous cases all involved guns.