After an Oval Office sit-down on Tuesday did nothing to move Republican
Senate leaders off their hard line against a Supreme Court nomination,
Democrats pulled out another weapon in the heated election-year fight:
Donald Trump.
In a White House
meeting that lasted less than an hour, Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell, R-Ky., and Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley,
R-Iowa, told President Barack Obama that any confirmation process during
a presidential campaign would politicize the court. They offered up no
potential candidates that would win their backing and no route to
filling the seat. Read more
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