Grassley at Peace With Obstructionist Stance on High Court Pick
- Judiciary chairman acknowledges move could hurt re-election
- Iowa senator says blocking Merrick Garland is `what's right'
Senator Chuck Grassley takes his seat for a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Jan. 22, 2015.
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Chuck Grassley isn’t budging.
The grizzled Iowa Republican senator who chairs the Judiciary Committee has been at the center of a storm of pressure from the White House, Democrats and grassroots activists across the country to get him to crack and allow the U.S. Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland to go forward.