WASHINGTON – Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren lit up her social media accounts over the holiday weekend, adding to the powderkeg of partisanship that has defined the aftermath of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's sudden death in Texas on Saturday.
The state's senior senator was apparently reacting to statements by Kentucky's Mitch McConnell, the Senate's Republican leader, who on Saturday declared about replacing Scalia on the high court: "This vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president." McConnell cited the need to give Americans "a voice in the selection."
BOSTON – The death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has conjured a flurry of media speculation regarding the political future of former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick, who currently works at a Boston-based private equity firm.
Patrick, a Democrat and friend of President Barack Obama, hasn't sent any signals of interest in returning to public life. Yet his name cropped up Sunday in published musings over who Obama might nominate to the nation's high court. Patrick served as the Justice Department's top civil rights lawyer for several years under President Bill Clinton.
