Sen. Mitch McConnell: "This vacancy should not be filled until there is a new President selected." [View all]

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Source: MSNBC live

Ari Melber said he just got that announcement.

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GOP Moves To Block Obama From Naming Scalia Successor

Almost immediately after the first public confirmation that Justice Antonin Scalia had died, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell signaled that the GOP-controlled Senate would block President Obama from nominating Scalia's successor.

"The American people? should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice," McConnell said in a statement. "Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new President.”

McConnell's statement came as a chorus of conservatives called for the confirmation process to be delayed until the next President takes office in January 2017.

Minority Leader Harry Reid countered in his own statement Saturday that said the "Senate has a responsibility to fill vacancies as soon as possible." "It would be unprecedented in recent history for the Supreme Court to go a year with a vacant seat," Reid said. "Failing to fill this vacancy would be a shameful abdication of one of the Senate's most essential Constitutional responsibilities.”


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