National and state-based pro-life organizations and other conservatives are mobilizing a grassroots campaign that intends to urge the GOP-led Senate to hold firm to its assurance it will not consider President Barack Obama’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Several more GOP senators say they are willing to meet with President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court seat left open by the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
A small group of U.S. senators say they will meet with President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate will “withhold” consent of President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor says President Obama should quickly nominate a new justice to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who was found dead last Saturday.
Sen. Chuck Schumer says Republicans should not cite a speech he gave in 2007 as justification to block President Barack Obama’s pending nominee to the Supreme Court.
A Washington, D.C. attorney who has practiced both civil rights and constitutional law warns it is possible that Senate confirmation of a left-leaning Obama appointee to the high court could allow the federal government to take over not only police departments, but also all of school discipline in public schools.
