Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate will not consider President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, CNBC reports.
McConnell said that Obama did it “not with the intent of seeing the nominee confirmed, but in order to politicize it for the purpose of the election.”
He added the Senate will “revisit” the matter when the next president nominates someone, noting that the people should have a say in who fills the currently vacant seat.
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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