Obama Will Make a Supreme Court Nomination

President Obama vowed to nominate an “indisputably qualified” candidate to the Supreme Court, “forcefully rejecting Republican calls that he cede the pick to his successor because the Court vacancy comes late in his presidency and in the middle of an election year,” the Washington Post reports.

Said Obama: “There’s no unwritten law that says it can only be done on off years. That’s not in the constitutional text. I’m amused when I hear people who claim to be strict interpreters of the Constitution suddenly reading into it a whole series of provisions that are not there.”