Hillary Clinton Hammers GOP For Trying to Dodge Confirming Obama Scalia Replacement

Hillary Clinton warned Republicans not to dodge confirming President Obama’s replacement for Justice Scalia, saying in a statement, “The Senate has a constitutional responsibility here that it cannot abdicate for partisan political reasons.”

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2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton chastised Republicans for politicizing the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia:

My thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Justice Scalia as they mourn his sudden passing. I did not hold Justice Scalia’s views, but he was a dedicated public servant who brought energy and passion to the bench.

The Republicans in the Senate and on the campaign trail who are calling for Justice Scalia’s seat to remain vacant dishonor our Constitution. The Senate has a constitutional responsibility here that it cannot abdicate for partisan political reasons.

Republicans didn’t waste precious minutes after the shocking news of Justice Scalia’s death. They immediately jumped to concluding that they would block President Obama’s nominee, as if the President didn’t have the same presidential authority as the people gave him, and as former President Reagan had when he nominated Justice Kennedy who was confirmed in an election year.

The average time for confirmation of a Supreme Court judge is 67 days.

Republicans would like to stretch that out for a year so that they can use it to their advantage as a get out the vote tactic.

The problem with that thinking is that Hillary Clinton has already given a nod to nominating President Obama to the court, and if she were to run on that it would solidify an avalanche of Obama voter turnout for her in addition to her supporters.

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