President Barack Obama is expected to announce his nominee to replace late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
An anonymous source familiar with the selection process told Reuters that Obama would announce Judge Sri Srinivasan or Judge Merrick Garland as the nominee. The report also said Obama’s vetting team had finished its work on Tuesday.
The highly-anticipated nomination comes after many Republican senators pledged not to give Obama’s nominee so much as a hearing, citing “tradition.”
Good for him!!
Throwing gasoline onto the fire engulfing the Republican party. Well done, Mr. President.
The gauntlet is poised and ready to be thrown.
That nominee will be expected to commit seppuku by the republicans when and if they acknowledge his/her existence. If he/she does notdo it on command they will commit death by 1000 cuts on that person’s reputation.
I commend Obama for carrying out his Constitutional duty in making his choice. Would that the republicans in the Senate fulfill their part…but they won’t because Obama has the temerity to get elected…twice… while black. McConnell just cannot stand that he can’t control elections. He said Obama would be a 1 term POTUS. And from day one of Obama’s time in office Mitch has dome everything he could to block, obstruct, end run and otherwise gum up Congress. All because of a man’s skin color.
As another poster said on another thread …we don’t deserve a President as good as Obama has been.
You got that right Mr Darrtown.