Support for the Republican Party’s Plans for the Supreme Court Has Collapsed
Remember Merrick Garland?
Last March, when President Obama nominated Judge Garland to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left behind by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court looked dead on arrival. News of Scalia’s death had barely broken when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced that he would not allow anyone nominated by President Obama to be confirmed. Meanwhile, polls taken before the nomination suggested that voters would break down along party lines if Senate Republicans took the extraordinary step of refusing to even consider a nominee.
New polling released by the Center for American Progress on Monday, however, indicates that the public has turned hard against the GOP’s plan to simply ignore Garland’s nomination. Among other things, the poll finds that registered voters overwhelmingly support giving Garland a hearing and a confirmation vote
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