Supreme Court nominee process starts

Governor Brian Sandoval of Nevada State.

Would Governor Sandoval agrees to be vetted and accept as a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court to fill in the vacant position before the November election?

In spite of the leaders in the Republican Party's warning of blocking any of President Obama's nominees to the Supreme Court, the President is determined to exercise his Constitutional rights to fill in the position vacated by the passing of Justice Scalia recently.

The Republican leadership has made known publicly that the President should hold on to the nomination until after this November’s election to allow the then newly elected President to do the nomination.

But President Obama who is a constitutional law professor knows that it is within his power and rights to conduct the nomination process without having to wait after the election to do so.

Already, there has been the talk that the short listed nominee would include Nevada’s Governor Brian Sandoval who is of Hispanic origin. He was in Washington DC attending the Governor’s Conference and has already had a meeting with the Democratic Party leader, Senator Harry Reid, in private about the prospect as a nominee. The answer the following day after the private meeting was a quick no and thank you. As soon as it was leaked out to the media about their meeting with Senator Reid, Gov. Sandoval made it known that he is not interested at this time to be a nominee for the job.

President Obama’s has an early start to work on a bipartisan support especially from the recent announcement by Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois who is himself a Republican. Senator Kirk has expressed his support for the President in his rights to nominate and to start the process to send his nominee to the Senate body for a vote. However, Senator Kirk is hoping that the President would nominate someone who meets the qualification as well as the political attributes to be accepted by both parties.