{"id":305,"date":"2016-03-16T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wehle.org\/?p=305"},"modified":"2016-03-16T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T21:00:27","slug":"senate-majority-leader-mitch-mcconnell-has-told-president-barack-obamas-nominee-to-the-supreme-court-that-the-senate-wont-consider-his-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has told President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominee to the Supreme Court that the Senate won&#8217;t consider his nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/The-Latest-Obama-praises-Merrick-Garland-for-6893295.php\">Latest on President Barack Obama nominating\u00a0Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court<\/a> (all times local):<\/p>\n<p>4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has told President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominee to the Supreme Court that the Senate won&#8217;t consider his nomination.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell spokesman Don Stewart says the Senate&#8217;s majority leader spoke to nominee Merrick Garland by phone on Wednesday. Stewart says McConnell repeated his long-held position that the Senate won&#8217;t consider a nominee for the high court until the next president nominates one.<\/p>\n<div class=\"hdnce-e hdnce-item-48266\">\u00a0Most Republicans have rallied behind McConnell&#8217;s opposition to considering any Obama selection. McConnell and many other GOP senators say they wouldn&#8217;t even meet with a nominee.<\/div>\n<p>Stewart says McConnell felt it was more considerate of Garland to talk by phone, and not subject him to &#8222;more unnecessary political routines orchestrated by the White House.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Stewart says McConnell wished Garland well in the Wednesday afternoon call, which the spokesman says did not last long.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I find this incredible. I feel that I am watching the illusion of American democracy that I was indoctrinated with in elementary school smashed upon an anvil of right wing gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Latest on President Barack Obama nominating\u00a0Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court (all times local): 4:30 p.m. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has told President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominee to the Supreme Court that the Senate won&#8217;t consider &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=305\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}