It's about the Senate ....the Senate...the Senate!
GOP senators aren’t happy that John McCain was probably caught telling the truthOn Monday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) confirmed one of Democrats’ worst fears. If Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wins the White House, but Republicans keep the Senate, the GOP “will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put up.”
If America wants to have a Supreme Court in five years, in other words, it better elect the same party to the White House and the Senate.
At least three key senators have now picked up on this two-part message that 1) Republicans won’t just reject any old person Hillary nominates, but 2) we don’t like the kind of people she would actually want.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), currently the chair of the Judiciary Committee, told reporters on Tuesday that “we can’t just simply stonewall” Clinton’s nominees, but “the type of people she’s going to appoint, I would say they are judicial activists.”
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), himself a former Judiciary Chair, echoed Grassley. His chief of staff told the Salt Lake Tribune that “close scrutiny of any future Hillary Clinton nominee will be particularly critical since she has advocated shifting the court to the left.”
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), arguably the most conservative member of the Senate, said that “of course we will look at anyone who might be nominated by the next president,” but “whether that nominee will be confirmed is an entirely different question.”...
https://thinkprogress.org/gop-senators-arent-happy-that-john-mccain-was-probably-caught-telling-the-truth-7fb0505fc51d#.95x831upn
