Obama Supreme Court nominee news: White House officials hold press call with reporters and legal advocates to discuss letter to Senate leaders signed by 15 former presidents of the American Bar Association for a fair Senate hearing and timely vote for Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.... President Obama calls for fair play from Senate Republicans for Judge Garland, currently the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.... By www.clevelandurbannews.com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman
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| President Barack Obama (left) and his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Merrick Garland, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (White House photo) |
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CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM-WASHINGTON, D.C. –White House officials held a press call with reporters and legal advocates on April 12 to discuss a letter from American Bar Association affiliates that calls for U.S. Senate leaders to give Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland a fair Senate confirmation hearing and a timely vote. (Editor's note: Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper, was invited to participate per an email from the White House).
Read the letter by 15 former presidents of the American Bar Association by clicking HERE.
The letter, dated April 11, is addressed to Senate GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Minority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley, and Senate Committee on the Judiciary ranking member Patrick Leahy.
It urges in relevant part that "the members of the United States Senate give Chief Judge Garland’s nomination meaningful consideration by holding a fair hearing and timely vote."
Legal advocates that discussed the controversial issue with White House officials during Tuesday's teleconference were Martha Barnett, former president of the American Bar Association from 2000 to 2001, Dennis Archer, former president of the American Bar Association from 2003 to 2004, and William Neukom, former president of the American Bar Association from 2007 to 2008.
Per the constitution, the Senate confirms Supreme Court justices of the nation's highest court, a life long appointment.
Garland is a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice William Brennan Jr. and currently chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
He was twice a finalist whom President Obama last considered in 2009 but chose Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
The scholarly Garland, 63, graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1974 and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1977.
He was twice a finalist whom President Obama last considered in 2009 but chose Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
The scholarly Garland, 63, graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1974 and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1977.
A moderate who has served on the appellate bench for nearly two decades, he is the grandson of Jewish immigrants who migrated from Eastern Europe.
A Democrat, the president has appealed to the Republican controlled Senate, and seeks fair play for his nominee, his third Supreme Court nominee since taking office in 2009.
"I hope they're fair, Obama said of Senate Republicans during his Rose Garden announcement March 16 of his Supreme Court choice to replace longtime conservative justice Antonin Scalia, who died last month. "That's all I hope. I hope they are fair."
Senate Republicans have said that they will not even meet to consider the president's nomination for the nine-member court until after the November presidential election. This has angered Congressional Democrats and a host of others, including Black leaders and the NAACP. They complain that the blocking effort by Congressional Republicans is a mean spirited attempt to deny the country's first Black president his constitutional authority to recommend a Supreme Court nominee.
Senate Majority Leader since 2014 and the second Kentuckian to hold the prestigious position, McConnell, who prolonged the Senate confirmation hearings for of Loretta Lynch, the first Black female attorney general, has pledged to do everything in his power to preclude confirmation hearings for Garland during the president's last year in office .
(As to Loretta Lynch, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS .This archived article was written in conjunction with the teleconference in April of 2015 on the orchestrated delay by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Senate confirmation hearings for now U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch. It is a press call with Cleveland Urban News.Com Editor-in-Chief Kathy Wray Coleman and was led by 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge. Also included in the call were representatives of the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. ).
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