Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid: GOP senators will buck leadership on Supreme Court pick

Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Sunday predicted a “breakthrough” in the fight over President Obama’s pick to replace late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, saying Republican senators fighting for their seats will break with their leader and demand hearings and a vote on the nominee.

Mr. Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland, the 63-year-old chief judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to fill the vacancy cr