Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell announced there would be no hearings for President Obama’s nominee. He is pressing for Garland to get “the hearing he deserves”, followed by an up or down vote on his confirmation. He claimed there was no good reason to deny Merrick Garland a hearing.
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The senator said in a statement he was impressed by Garland’s measured demeanor and his respect for the Constitution.
“I was especially interested in his thinking about the right to privacy and how it relates to women’s reproductive rights”, she said.
Earnest was recalling a suggestion President Obama made in an interview with Fox News Sunday in which he said if Republicans continued blocking Garland until he left office then “it is nearly impossible to expect” that Democrats wouldn’t retaliate if given the opportunity.
“The U.S. Supreme Court is very, very political, just like Congress is, just like the president of the United States”. King says while Garland’s individual meetings with Senators are important, he thinks the public should be involved.
There are not too many Republican ills that Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid will not lay at the feet of the billionaire Koch brothers, especially if it concerns obstruction.
Republicans want to wait until after the November elections, in hopes that a Republican will become President and nominate a conservative justice.
They never said it was going to be easy.
I am hopeful that more and more Republicans will listen to their constituents and agree to take the first step of meeting with Judge Garland. Sen.
A nonprofit group associated with a Democratic super PAC is launching a series of online video ads targeting several Republican senators up for reelection who are opposed to considering Merrick Garland for the open Supreme Court seat. “As I have said previously, however, I believe the American people should have a voice in this debate”.
But Toomey said Garland would be a “very different” justice than the late Antonin Scalia, which he said would shift the balance of the Supreme Court.
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But President Barack Obama is unlikely to test the constitutionality of Senate inaction by appointing him if there are no hearings, Democrat Patty Murray said. Allison Shelley/Getty Images Supreme Court justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg participate in an annual Women’s History Month reception in Washington D.C. The town hall will include judges from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and other local judges, the White House said.
