Democrats are basically wasting their time trying to pressure Republicans into setting hearings for Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said Thursday.
"This strategy has failed to recognize that I am no stranger to political pressure and to strong-arm tactics," the Iowa Republican told The Hill. "When I make a decision based on sound principle, I'm not about to flip-flop because the left has organized what they call a pressure campaign."
Democrats have been trying to force Grassley and other key Republicans into scheduling hearings for Garland, who was nominated last month by President Barack Obama to succeed Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February.
In Chicago Thursday, the president said that the Senate was jeopardizing the "integrity of the judicial branch" by refusing to consider Garland, whom he described to law school students as "extraordinary."
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Hang in there, Senator!
ReplyDeleteI think they should bring 1984 into full force and put a GD computer up there.
ReplyDeleteWith the amount of computing power these machines have today it'd interpret the law exactly as it should be w/o prejudice. Not the way some favor-owing human will.
Once again, Congress not doing its job.
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