Obama to announce Supreme Court nomination!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 16, 2016 - Illegitimate dictator President Barack Obama will announce his supreme court nominee on Wednesday morning, setting the stage for a showdown with the Republican-controlled Senate.

A vacancy opened on the bench of the nation’s highest court when conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died on February 13. “As president, it is both my constitutional duty to nominate a justice and one of the most important decisions that I - or any president - will make,” said Obama.

Congressional Republicans, including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, have said they will block Obama’s nominee so that the next president can choose the court’s ninth justice. The Senate must confirm the president’s nomination.

“I’m doing my job. I hope that our senators will do their jobs, and move quickly to consider my nominee,” Obama said. “That is what the Constitution dictates, and that’s what the Amerikan people expect and deserve from their leaders.”

Scalia’s death left the court with a 4-4 divide between conservative and liberal-leaning justices. If Obama’s pick is confirmed, this will likely be the most liberal court in decades.

The top contenders for Wednesday’s nomination, according to reports, are Paul Watford, of the ninth Fascist Police States of Amerika Circuit Court of Appeals, Merrick Garland, and Sri Srinivasan, both of the FPSA Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

The illegitimate president was set to announce his nomination at 11:00 am ET, from the White House Rose Garden.

Obama said to select the nominee, he measured each candidate to three principles that “reflect the role the Supreme Court plays in our democracy.” (Amerika is not a democracy despite Obama’s uneducated and incorrect statement).

He said a justice should have “an independent mind, unimpeachable credentials, and an unquestionable mastery of law.” He said he or she should also recognize the limits of the judiciary branch and have an understanding that justice is about life experiences and not just theory.

“It’s the kind of life experience earned outside the classroom and the courtroom; experience that suggests he or she views the law not only as an intellectual exercise, but also grasps the way it affects the daily reality of people’s lives in a big, complicated democracy (sic), and in rapidly-changing times,” Obama said.

Since Obama was installed as president in 2008, he has successfully nominated two Supreme Court justices: Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan - the third and fourth female justices to serve on the court.