Senate Republican leadership and the entire conference are having a series of meetings Tuesday, and the decision has been made. They will refuse to consider any nominee President Obama puts forward.
Key Republican senators on the Judiciary Committee emerged from a closed door meeting in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office Tuesday united in their determination not to consider any nominee to replace Antonin Scalia until the next president takes office.
"We believe the American people need to decide who is going to make this appointment rather than a lame duck president," said Majority Whip John Cornyn. [...]
Sen. Lindsey Graham said that "there's no use starting a process that's not going to go anywhere and we are going to let the next president decide," when asked why there would be no hearings.
Just to make sure everyone knows how committed they are to being assholes and completely breaking precedent:
To double down on that, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) added that if a nominee came to his office, he would refuse to meet with them. "Not on the basis of the Supreme Court nominee," he says.
There you have it. The gatekeepers of the federal judiciary are refusing to do their job. That should work out well for them in November.