A majority of Americans say the Senate should hold hearings on President Barack Obama’s choice to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Feb. 13.
According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, 56 percent of Americans believe the Senate should hold hearings and vote on the president’s designated successor, while 38 percent say the Senate should wait until the next president.
The results break down along party lines, with 66 percent of Republicans saying the Senate should not hold hearings and 79 percent of Democrats saying the Senate should.
Seven in 10 Americans (71 percent), say they’ve heard a lot about the tussle over the future of the Supreme Court, and 57 percent say the identity of the justice chosen to replace Scalia is “very important to them personally.”
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