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February 17, 2016 The Skanner Page 9 News Obama Chides Senators to Vote on Court Pick AP PHOTO/JIM MONE, FILE WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is challenging Republi- cans to live up to their avowed adher- ence for the Constitution and agree to vote on his nominee to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. A key Republican is leaving the door open to taking the fi rst step. In this Oct. 20, 2015 fi le photo, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. White House lawyers are scouring a life’s worth of information about President Barack Obama’s potential picks for the Supreme Court, ranging from the mundane to the intensely personal. In replacing the late Justice Antonin Scalia, the president could alter the balance of the court for decades, but only if he can get his nominee through Republicans in the Senate. Despite widespread GOP insistence that he leave the decision to the next president, Obama said Tuesday he had no intention of abdicating his responsi- bilities before leaving offi ce early next year. He chidingly told the Senate he expects “them to do their job as well.” “The Constitution is pretty clear about what’s supposed to happen now,” Obama said before returning to Wash- ington from California. Fallout from Scalia’s unexpected death overshadowed Obama’s two days of summitry with Southeast Asian leaders. Obama pledged to nominate a candidate “indisputably” qualifi ed, but Republican leaders have threatened to refuse to hold hearings or a vote on his pick to replace the conservative Scalia. Yet there were hints that at least some Republicans might come around. Sen- ate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grass- ley, R-Iowa, said he would wait “until the nominee is made before I would make any decision” about holding hearings, boosting White House hopes for getting a third justice confi rmed on Obama’s watch. GOP Candidates in High- Stakes Match in S.C. CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Jeb Bush, John Kasich and Marco Rubio are locked in a high-stakes political chess match in South Carolina, strategically moving money and other campaign re- sources around in a bid to pull ahead in the Republican primary race — or at least keep their campaigns afl oat if they don’t. The maneuvering comes as some Re- publican leaders fear Donald Trump or Ted Cruz will begin piling up the dele- gates needed to secure the nomination before one of the more traditional can- didates can concentrate the support of voters turned off by the brash bil- lionaire and fi ery Texas senator, who so-called establishment Republicans AP PHOTO/JEFF CHIU, FILE-POOL World News Briefs In this Oct. 20, 2014 fi le-pool photo, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks at San Jose State University in San Jose, Calif. White House lawyers are scouring a life’s worth of information about President Barack Obama’s potential picks for the Supreme Court, ranging from the mundane to the intensely personal. In replacing the late Justice Antonin Scalia, the president could alter the balance of the court for decades, but only if he can get his nominee through Republicans in the Senate. All told, Sotomayor’s questionnaire response totaled more than 5,000 pages. believe could jeopardize the party’s chances of winning in November’s gen- eral election. “We do need to get the fi eld down to Trump, Cruz and somebody,” said Henry Barbour, a Republican National Committee heavyweight from Missis- sippi. “New Hampshire tried, but it’s clear as mud.” Indeed, the only thing that is clear heading into Saturday’s South Carolina primary appears to be Trump’s grip on the lead. Cruz, the winner of the Iowa caucuses, is expected to do well. But the more mainstream lane popu- lated by Bush, Kasich and Rubio is more jumbled. Bush’s campaign now sees an opening to capitalize on Rubio’s fi ft h- place fi nish in New Hampshire, while Kasich’s strong second-place showing there has given him reason to keep his campaign going. Rubio’s team, mean- while, is quietly confi dent that South Carolina will prove to be a comeback story for the Florida senator. Apple Resisting Order to Share iPhone Information WASHINGTON (AP) — Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook says his company will fi ght a federal magistrate’s order to hack its users in connection with the investigation of the San Bernardino, California shootings, asserting that would undermine encryption by cre- ating a backdoor that could potentially be used on other future devices. Cook’s ferocious response, posted early Wednesday on the company’s website, came aft er an order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym that Ap- ple Inc. help the Obama administra- tion break into an encrypted iPhone belonging to one of the shooters in the December attack. The fi rst-of-its-kind ruling was a sig- nifi cant victory for the Justice Depart- ment in a technology policy debate that pits digital privacy against national se- curity interests. Noting the order Tuesday from feder- al Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym in Cali- fornia, Cook said “this moment calls for public discussion, and we want our cus- tomers and people around the country to understand what is at stake.” Cook argued that the order “has im- plications far beyond the legal case at hand.” See WORLD NEWS on page 10 An Evening with Famed Author and Professor DR. MICHAEL ERIC DYSON presented by PORTLAND PRIME in honor of BLACK HISTORY MONTH MONDAY FEB. 22, 2016 • 5:30PM 121 SW 3RD AVE, PORTLAND, OR 97204 Dinner & Wine: $80 per person We are also honoring Judge Adrienne Nelson of the Multnomah County Circut Court, the second African American female judge to be appointed in the state of Oregon MC Robin Givins (503) 223-6200 • PortlandPrime.net Prime Steaks & Entertainment
