Headline Roundup • February 16th, 2016
SCOTUS Vacancy Impacts Senate Races
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NPR (Online News)
Within hours of Justice Antonin Scalia's death, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell aimed to squash any expectation that President Obama will get to name his successor.
New York Times (News)
2016 election contest: the fight for control of the Senate. The Senate is in play this November, and the same vulnerable Republicans whose defeats might cost the G.O.P. control of the chamber are at once among the likeliest to back
Washington Times
Illinois politics, like that across the nation, is being roiled by the death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Within hours of Scalia’s death, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate won’t consider any replacement justice nominated by President Barack Obama.
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