Senate Judiciary Republicans vow no hearing for Obama SCOTUS nominee

In a letter today, signed by all 11 Republicans on the 20-member committee, the members tell their Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, they will “not hold hearings on any Supreme Court nominee until after our next president is sworn in on January 20, 2017.”

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“It’s not about the personality,” a committee member and Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, told reporters today. “It’s about the principle.”

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