GOP Senator: 'Nobody Really Believes' That Next Prez Should Get SCOTUS Pick Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) made admissions that could be awkward for his Republican Senate colleagues trying to block President Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. In an interview published Monday, Flake conceded that nobody in the Republican Party "really believes" that late Justice Antonin Scalia's Supreme Court seat should be left for the next president to fill. As proof, he flipped the scenario around and envisioned a Republican president currently in the White House and nearing the end of his term. "Our position shouldnt be that the next president ought to decide. Nobody really believes that, because if this were the last year of a Republican presidency nobody would say that," Flake told the Daily Beast. He added that the Senate's position "ought to be to confirm the most conservative justice to replace Scalia," to maintain balance, even if that means confirming President Obama's Supreme Court nominee http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jeff-flake-merrill-garland-supreme-court Oh how things change as the soon to be elected HRC become more apparent .. And how it has changes the Senate GOP No compromise The only the next president has the right to make the next SCOTUS appointment But dont think of it as hypocrisy .but is just SOP for the GOP
