. >> the vacate -- kay vant chair supreme court justice antonin scalalia has bn draped in black in his honor and will be laid to rest on saturday.y. abs jonathan karl has more on the political battle ahead. >> reporter: it wi be in the great hall of the supreme court where anton scalia's body will lie in repose friday, a public viewing not far from that chair, now cloaked in black, he used for his 30 years as a justic in cifornia, president obama paid tribute to scalia as a supreme court giant but also fight to replace him. >> i intend to nominate somebody to present them to the american people, to present them to the senate. i expect them to hold hearings. i expect there to be a vote. >> reporter: b republicans remain dug in, insisting the next president should name scalia's replacement. the president pointed out there is precedent for the senate confirming a justice during a predent's final year in office. president reagan's nominee, anthony kennedy, was confirmed in februruary 1988 but kennededy's cases an unusual one. the vacancy came the previous year, inuly 1987, when justice lew