Democrats Push for Vote as Partisan Supreme Court Fight Grows
- Clinton, Sanders both say an Obama nominee deserves a vote
- Republican position cast by opponents as Constitutional crisis
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, speaks during a Roosevelt Institute event at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, May 12, 2015.
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Democrats pushed Sunday for Congress to vote upon a Supreme Court nominee from President Barack Obama, sharpening a fight with Republican leaders who said they won’t consider a replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia until after the 2016 election.
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, in a Twitter message, said Obama will occupy the White House until January. “It’s his job to nominate a justice, the Senate has a responsibility to vote,” Clinton said.