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Headline Roundup February 18th, 2016

Fight Over Appointment Continues

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Republicans have a weapon to stop Obama recess appointment
Republicans have a weapon to stop Obama recess appointment

Fox News Digital

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is bent on refusing to consider any nominee President Obama may submit to succeed late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. And if he doesn’t give ground, Obama may have only one option for an end-run: a recess appointment.

But Republicans can rest easy: GOP leaders have an ace up their sleeve.

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Americans Divided on Whether Senate Should Consider Obama Supreme Court Nominee
Americans Divided on Whether Senate Should Consider Obama Supreme Court Nominee

Wall Street Journal (News)

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Americans are just as divided as politicians over whether the Senate should consider President Barack Obama’s forthcoming nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

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Dems Plan To Make Republicans Pay For Blockading The Supreme Court
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If shame is the only real tool that President Barack Obama has to force the U.S. Senate to consider a Supreme Court nomination in his final year, let the shames begin.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declared over the weekend -- within hours of the news that Justice Antonin Scalia had died -- that the Senate should not even

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