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| Sudden Supreme Court vacancy seizes U.S. campaign spotlight | | Sunday, February 14, 2016 3:18 AM | |
|  By James Oliphant and Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The future of the U.S. Supreme Court grabbed center stage in the country's presidential campaign with the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia, setting up an election-year battle over who should succeed him on a nine-member bench that interprets U.S. law over such hot-button issues as abortion, gay marriage, healthcare and immigration. The death of the 79-year-old conservative justice, announced by Chief Justice John Roberts, promises to provoke a major confrontation this year between President Barack Obama, a Democrat, and the Republican-led U.S. Senate over who will replace Scalia. The U.S. president has the job of nominating justices, and the Senate has the job of confirming.
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| U.S. Justice Scalia, conservative icon, dead at 79 | | Sunday, February 14, 2016 3:18 AM | |
|  By Joan Biskupic and Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has died, setting up a major political showdown between President Barack Obama and the Republican-controlled Senate over who will replace him just months before a presidential election. Obama called Scalia a "larger-than-life presence" on the court and said he would nominate a successor. "I plan to fulfill my constitutional responsibility to appoint a successor in due time and there will be plenty of time for me to do so and for the Senate to give that person a fair hearing and timely vote," Obama said in a brief remarks to reporters in California, where he was traveling.
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| Republican candidates urge Obama not to nominate Scalia successor | | Sunday, February 14, 2016 2:58 AM | |
|  By Steve Holland GREENVILLE, S.C. (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates urged President Barack Obama on Saturday not to nominate a successor to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, saying it should be up to the next president to decide. Scalia's death, announced earlier on Saturday, and the consequences for the conservatives' 5-4 advantage on the high court cast a shadow over the ninth debate between rivals for the Republican presidential nomination for the Nov. 8 election. "I would like the president for once here to put the country first," Ohio Governor John Kasich said at the outset of the two-hour debate hosted by CBS.
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| U.S. Justice Scalia: outspoken conservative stalwart | | Sunday, February 14, 2016 2:57 AM | |
|  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In almost 30 years on the bench of the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was strident, colorful, and most of all, conservative. "I love him but sometimes I'd like to strangle him," Ginsburg, a liberal who bonded with Scalia over a love of opera, once said. Scalia, who died at age 79, was appointed to the high court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and built a reputation as one of the nation's most brilliant, conservative jurists.
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| Pope presses Mexican president on corruption and drugs | | Sunday, February 14, 2016 2:31 AM | |
|  By Philip Pullella and Gabriel Stargardter MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis called on Mexico's government on Saturday to fight endemic corruption and drug trafficking and he then prayed with thousands before the icon that unites the country - the Virgin of Guadalupe. Corruption is deeply ingrained in Mexico, and President Enrique Pena Nieto, his wife and finance minister have all been embroiled in conflict of interest scandals involving homes purchased from government contractors. The pope also exhorted Mexico's bishops to take a more active stand against the drug trade, which he said "devours like a metastasis." Drug-trafficking gangs have infiltrated police forces across the country and more than 100,000 people have been killed in drug violence over the last decade.
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