Obama Signs Executive Order: Appoints Rashad Hussain As New Supreme Court Justice
President
Barack Obama signed an Executive Order today for a new Supreme Court
Justice to replace Antonin Scalia. (AP Photo/Dennis System, File) / AP
WASHINGTON — Just two days after the funeral for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last week of a heart attack at the age of 79, President Obama signed Executive Order 14651, which appoints Rashad Hussain as the new Supreme Court Justice to replace Scalia.
“We
cannot wait for a new President or the Senate Republicans to fill this
vacancy left by Scalia, so I have taken it upon myself to do what needed
to be done,” Obama told reporters at a press conference today.
“Republican Senators believe that it is appropriate not to act on such
an important matter, and as I have shown today, I do not agree with
that.”
Hussain, of Muslim heritage, is an attorney who has served as US Special Envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC),
the second largest intergovernmental body after the UN, and as US
Special Envoy for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications. Hussain has
also served in the White House Counsel’s Office and on the National
Security Council as a political appointee of the Obama Administration.
Even
though under the Constitution, it is the President’s job to nominate
Supreme Court justices, Obama’s selection is already drawing sharp
criticism from Republicans. Presidential hopeful Donald Trump told ABC News that he does not agree with the President’s decision.”
“Hussain
is a Muslim and a sympathizer, just like Obama, and now he takes over
the legacy the great Antonin Scalia left behind. The President should be
ashamed of himself.”
“The American people should have had a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court justice,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said. “Appointing a Muslim to replace Scalia is absolutely appalling.”
Sarah Bradley, a spokeswoman for Sock It Forward,
a group that provides the homeless and those less fortunate with brand
new socks told ABC News that she fully supports Obama’s decision.
“We
needed someone in there to fill that spot as quickly as possible,”
Bradley said. “Regardless if you agree with Obama’s appointed choice of
Hussain, Scalia was a disgrace to the Supreme Court. He was a religious radical, a bigot, a racist, against women’s rights, gay rights and human rights in general;
there’s absolutely no reason a person like that should have ever had
power like that in the first place. He will always be remembered as
being on the wrong side of history.”
David
Mikkelson, founder of Snopes, a website that takes the fun out of
stories on the internet in order to generate advertising revenue, who is
also currently being sued by Fox News for calling them a “fake news site”, told ABC News that he approves of what a story like this is accomplishing.
“This
type of story, when it goes viral, and we debunk it, we make money,”
Mikkelson said. “We use our cookie-cutter outlines, we copy and paste
the original article into ours, type in one or two sentences of original
content and then we make hellavlota cash.
If it wasn’t for people like Internet news satirist Paul Horner, my children wouldn’t have been able to go to college.”
Legal
experts believe Republicans will attempt to block Obama’s appointee
until he’s out of office, leaving the court with a gaping vacant seat
for nearly a year.
“Obama has a right to do what he did, but we’ll fight him to the end on this,” Tom Downey of the Republican National Lawyers Association told reporters. “This will not stand, ya know, this aggression will not stand, man.”
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