"In 2012, Scalia averred that he would not retire until there was a more ideologically congenial President in the White House. 'I would not like to be replaced,' he explained, 'by someone who immediately sets about undoing everything that I'€™ve tried to do for 25 years.'

"Scalia never got to choose the timing of his leaving office. Those who value the legacy of those now-30 years will determine whether his last wish will be vindicated. Let McConnell do his thing. Then in November it's for us to win one for Nino."

"In their wisdom, the Founders designed an elegantly simple and effective system of checks and balances so no single branch -- no single person -- could amass tyrannical control. Justice Scalia was a powerful check within a check. He was a bulwark for the Constitution, the rule of law and individual liberty. He was a bulwark against the likes of Mr. Obama.

"In blocking Mr. Obama'€™s choice for the court, Senate Republicans will honor Justice Scalia's fearless discharge of his constitutional duties and carry out their own. They have bent to Mr. Obama's (often unconstitutional) will enough.

"The future of the Supreme Court is the future of the country. This is precisely the hill on which to battle. Republicans must fight as if the Constitution depends on it, because it does."

"There's no doubt that if Democrats controlled the Senate during the last year of a Republican administration, they would run out the clock before confirming anyone to the Supreme Court. Sen. Chuck Schumer pledged to block any nominee in July of 2007 should a vacancy open up during the final 18 months of George W. Bush's second term.

"Sens. Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton tried to filibuster Samuel Alito's nomination in 2006.

"Obama has repeatedly ignored and circumvented Congress, abusing executive orders that have been repeatedly overturned by the Supreme Court. It would be fitting if the Senate reasserted its responsibility to hold a rampaging President in check by denying Obama the chance to put another liberal activist on the bench."

"Sen. McConnell vows that the choice of a successor to Justice Scalia, given the historic and long-reaching nature of the choice, should be that of the new president, whoever he or she may be. This is brave and defiant talk; unfortunately brave Republican talk often dissolves under pressure. Sen. McConnell must buck up the courage of his troops when they hear the sound of the guns. Everything is riding on it."

"Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Saturday, was not just a conservative icon. He was also a great public servant and one of America's clearest legal thinkers. His opinions, dissents and questions in open court were full of his sharp wit and colorful expression. He was a great jurist and will be sorely missed. ...

"Scalia's pet peeve was the modern tendency to frame every perceived wrong as something that had to be unconstitutional. He believed that in constantly ascribing new and hidden rights to a document that did not contain them, justices were turning the Supreme Court into a super-legislature that dictated cultural norms, rather than a true judicial panel. ...

"The idea of a 'living' or 'evolving' Constitution repelled Scalia. In his view, it represented a backdoor way of letting unelected judges substitute their own values for those of the people who made the decisions to vote and ratify the Constitution and its amendments. 'The risk of assessing evolving standards,' he wrote in one dissent, 'is that it is all too easy to believe that evolution has culminated in one's own views.'"

"Guerrilla videographer James O'Keefe and his Project Veritas team have for years documented just how easy it is to commit voter fraud in states ranging from Minnesota to North Carolina. In 2012, his undercover exposes at the polls convinced the New Hampshire legislature to pass a bill mandating that voters show a government-issued ID -- even college ID cards are acceptable. If voters have no form of ID, they can sign an affidavit and still have their vote counted. The votes needed to approve the bill over the objections of then-governor John Lynch were provided by his fellow Democrats.

"This year's presidential primaries were the first in which the ID law was fully in effect, so O'Keefe returned to New Hampshire to see how it was working out. He didn't find the long lines and confusion predicted by liberal critics, but his undercover team found out just how easy it still is for non-residents to vote. He released a video documenting his findings.

"The video shows poll workers advising Project Veritas journalists how to skirt the rules in order to vote as non-residents. Bernie Sanders campaign staffers are shown encouraging undercover journalists to claim false addresses in order to vote in the primary. (No matter how easy the undercover journalists found it would be to cast an illegal ballot, they stopped short of actually doing so.)"

"President Barack Obama's former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) believes Hillary Clinton should drop out of the presidential race to clear the way for the probe of her private email server by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

"In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation, Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn (Ret.) said he thought the former Secretary of State should leave the Democratic presidential race: 'I think Hillary Clinton, for the good of the country, should step down and let this FBI investigation play out.' ...

"'This is unbelievable,' Flynn said. 'I don't think anybody should be talking about her being potentially the next President of the United States.'"

"The Supreme Court halted the EPA's major anti-global warming initiative late Tuesday evening, dealing a major blow to President Obama's hopes of overseeing a green energy transition in his final year in office.

"The 5-4 decision by the court puts the Environmental Protection Agency's regulation on hold while a lower appeals court hears states' challenge to the rules.

"More than two dozen states sued to stop the rules, which were intended to control greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants. ...

"While Tuesday's stay isn't a ruling on the actual merits of the EPA's regulations, energy industry backers said it suggested a majority of the justices are skeptical of what Mr. Obama did."

"Watching last Thursday's debate between Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, one might have thought a Republican had been in the White House for nearly eight years.

"Hearing their complaints about the economy (bad), discrimination (rampant), health care (too many without it), unemployment (too many not working or working at low-paying jobs), it appeared hope had died and change is all we have left in our pockets.

"To hear these two ultra-liberals tell it, we are a horrible, miserable, evil nation. We are bigots, we are greedy because we won't surrender more of our income to the government gods, we hate anyone who isn't white, male and heterosexual, and we want to deport everyone who isn't a Christian.

"I wouldn't want to live in a country like that, would you? But that is not who we are. It is only who Democrats think we are."

"The Pentagon is ordering the top brass to incorporate climate change into virtually everything they do, from testing weapons to training troops to war planning to joint exercises with allies.

"A new directive's theme: The U.S. Armed Forces must show 'resilience' and beat back the threat based on 'actionable science.'

"It says the military will not be able to maintain effectiveness unless the directive is followed. It orders the establishment of a new layer of bureaucracy -- a wide array of 'climate change boards, councils and working groups' to infuse climate change into 'programs, plans and policies.'"