“I Dissent”

…Antonin Scalia was one of the most consequential justices on the Supreme Court in at least a generation, not for what he did necessarily but for standing up for and not abrogating his pledge to the Constitution; something that tragically too many of his colleagues at all levels of the Judiciary have not. … If Mitch McConnell allows President Obama to pick a justice to fill the vacancy, he will doubtless choose a fellow ideological traveler who will trash the Constitution or twist it for political expediency to legislate from the bench…