President Barack Obama plans to announce his Supreme Court nominee on Wednesday, but Donald Trump thinks the Senate shouldn’t give the pick a hearing.Stay tuned.
“I don’t think so, no I think they should do what they’re doing,” the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination said on “Good Morning America” Wednesday. “I think they should wait until the next president and let the next president pick.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have vowed not to give Obama's choice a hearing, let alone an up-or-down vote. Democrats and Republicans are gearing up instead for an intense political battle aimed at motivating their respective bases, with an eye toward key Senate races that could swing the balance of the upper chamber in the fall.
Trump repeated his position later on CNN’s “New Day,” saying that he wasn’t “in favor of going forward.”
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Trump: Senate should block Obama's Supreme Court nominee
Politico reports:
