President Obama is well into the process of selecting his nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, according to report from National Public Radio.
According to the report, Obama has met with two judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C.: Chief Judge Merrick Garland and Judge Sri Srinivasan, who would be the first justice of South Asian heritage.
NPR also reported that Obama had interviewed Judge Paul Watford, of the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and St. Louis based 8th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Jane Kelly. Obama also interviewed D.C.-based U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
NPR reported that Srinivasan, Garland and Watford top the list, and all three of them have earned wide bipartisan support in the past.
Obama continues to push forward with vetting even as Senate Republicans have announced they will not hold a hearing on Obama’s nominee citing the election year as reason enough to block Obama from moving forward with his constitutional obligation.
