Schumer’s Nuclear Showdown | City Journal

When Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia died last year, Senate minority leader Harry Reid promptly issued a statement commanding Senate Republicans to approve a replacement—whomever President Obama might choose to nominate—“right away.” Refusal to act would be a “shameful abdication,” he added. He was joined by then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and others in a chorus of preemptive denunciation against any delay.

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