Scalia’s death plunges court, national politics into turmoil

Scalia’s death plunges court, national politics into turmoil

WASHINGTON POST
By Robert Barnes February 13 
Justice Antonin Scalia, the longest-serving member of the current Supreme Court and an intellectual leader of the conservative legal movement, died Saturday, and his death set off an immediate political battle about the future of the court and its national role.

 
Sri Srinivasan, who is he? Scalia's possible replacement?  

By Sinclair Broadcast Group  

Saturday, February 13th 2016

Shortly after news broke that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had passed many started speculating who his successor would be if President Barack Obama were to nominate the next Supreme Court Justice.
One name floated frequently was Sri Srinivasan, who The New Yorker described as "the nominee in waiting."
Srinivasan, according to The New Yorker is "the Obama Administration's principal deputy solicitor general."


Texas Ranch Where Scalia Died Is Rugged Oasis for the Famous 
NYT

By ALAN BLINDER and MANNY FERNANDEZFEB. 13, 2016

HOUSTON — The closest community to the West Texas resort where Justice Antonin Scalia died is barely even a place anymore: It is a virtual ghost town where perhaps only a dozen people still live. And when a silver hearse drove across the rocks outside the Cibolo Creek Ranch on Saturday, it was from a funeral home at least an hour away.

“People go there with great confidentiality, I think,” said Teresa Todd, the city attorney for Marfa, more than 30 miles from the ranch. “People go there, and you’re not bothered.”

For years, public figures, including Justice Scalia and Mick Jagger, and wealthy, anonymous vacationers have descended on the 30,000-acre enclave of the Chinati Mountains. It is a place where remoteness is cherished, and where, without ever leaving the grounds, guests can spend weeks in historic adobe forts.