It's Wednesday, May 25 and Day 102 since Justice Antonin Scalia died and Mitch McConnell laid down his Supreme Court blockade: No meetings, no hearings, no votes on his replacement. It's also Day 70 since President Obama named Merrick Garland to be Scalia's replacement. What's the Senate doing today instead of considering the Supreme Court nominee?
For one thing, they’re explaining that the blockade is still definitely 100 percent on:
Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) said Tuesday that the GOP blockade is in no danger of weakening. “It’s going to continue up to November the 8th,” he said, referring to Election Day. “You can’t predict the future of what’s going to happen, but I don’t think anything is going to change.”
“I think it’s least 52 Republicans, which is a majority of the Senate, deciding that we have to deliver on the mandate of the 2014 election,” Grassley said.
Grassley and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have the backing of their own allied outside groups, including issue-oriented organizations like the National Rifle Association, but also the well-funded Judicial Crisis Network, which has worked to activate conservatives who are deeply invested in the court’s direction to support the Republican opposition to Garland.
“The mandate of the 2014 election” apparently being a Senate that insists the president doesn’t get a full four-year term and refuses to do its job—even at the cost of a Supreme Court that can’t reliably do its job.
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