History shows that it’s impossible to call in advance whether forcing a delay will work in the service of one’s ideological agenda,or against itSenators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and all the other Republican obstructionists who want to block Obama from nominating a new US supreme court justice – would be wise to memorize their 19th century history before they’re doomed to repeat it.
Immediately after the death over the weekend of Justice Antonin Scalia, Republican members of Congress, and led by Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell,announced that they would block any nomination to the court by Obama, a call echoed by Republican presidential candidates.
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Source: theguardian.com