Senate Republicans begin dance with Garland
Grassley signals willingness to consider sending nominee standard questionnaire
Published: 8 hours ago
WASHINGTON – Signaling a potential crack in the Senate GOP roadblock against considering Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, Senator Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has indicated he would accept submission from the White House of the standard questionnaire for nominees.
Get the details on Obama’s activities in “The People vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against the Obama Administration.”
On Friday, Grassley’s spokesperson, Beth Levine, told BuzzFeed News that the Republicans “assume the administration will fill out the standard questionnaire submitted for judicial nominations.” Levine reiterated, reported Buzzfeed, Republican leadership’s position that “a majority of the Senate has made clear that the American people should have an opportunity to weigh in on this vacancy.”
It was welcomed as a breakthrough by the White House.
Are you ready to push back against the progressive-socialist machine taking over this country? Cheryl Chumley shows how in “The Devil in DC: Winning Back the Country from the Beast in Washington.”
“It appears that Chairman Grassley is prepared to accept a questionnaire from Judge Garland,” White House spokesperson Brandi Hoffine told BuzzFeed News Saturday. “We are heartened by this development and look forward to the Committee making this request directly to the nominee as well as to the White House, as is standard practice.”
Get the hottest, most important news stories on the Internet – delivered FREE to your inbox as soon as they break! Take just 30 seconds and sign up for WND’s Email News Alerts!
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said, unequivocally, that no nominee of Obama’s to replace Justice Antonin Scalia will receive a vote. And both McConnell and Grassley have said there will not be hearings for Garland’s nomination.
What do YOU think? Sound off in today’s WND Poll on Republican overtures to Obama’s SCOTUS nominee.
Yet on Tuesday, Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois is scheduled to be the first Republican senator to meet with Garland, the senator’s office announced Friday. A day earlier, Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran said that, while he doesn’t support Garland, he believes Obama’s nominee deserves a hearing. And, for her part, Maine Sen. Susan Collins has said she will meet with Garland — and has been pushing colleagues to do so and hold hearings as well.
Read more at
http://www.wnd.com/2016/03/senate-republicans-begin-dance-with-garland/#qfdjFiwEhsFIKQEO.99
