By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News
(CHICAGO) A handful of Republicans have met with President Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee Merrick Garland and now U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) will meet with him this morning.
Ahead of that meeting, Durbin continued to call on Senate Republicans to uphold their Constitutional obligations and consider Garland.
“No Supreme Court nominee has ever been denied a hearing before and Merrick Garland should not the be the first,” Durbin said from the Senate Floor on Tuesday. “The message of the American people to the Senate Republican Majority is very simple, three words, do your job. Do your job under the Constitution. Have a hearing.”
U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) has been one of the few to call on his fellow Republicans to hold a hearing, going against Senate Majority Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
