![]() ![]() The development most likely to prod Senate action is the result of the presidential election. Such arguments have not swayed Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who refuses to let Garland come to a vote. 8 election, insist that Obama’s successor name Scalia’s replacement, who could have a lasting effect on the ideological balance of a court now split with four liberals and four conservatives. Republicans, hopeful of winning back the White House from the Democrats in the Nov. The Senate’s inaction on Garland has made the court vacancy a key political prize in a presidential election year. Constitution assigns the Senate the power to confirm the president’s nominations to the Supreme Court. In 1916, the Senate voted to confirm Brandeis, making him America’s first Jewish justice. 13, Garland, chief judge of the federal appeals court in Washington, has now matched Louis Brandeis for the longest time between nomination and Senate action. Having been nominated on March 16 to replace conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Feb. In a move with little precedent in American history, the Republicans who control the Senate have simply refused to take any action on President Barack Obama’s nomination of Garland, 63, for a lifetime job on the nation’s top court. Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, meets with Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) (unseen) on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 25, 2016. ![]()
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