The “Why Courts Matter” coalition delivered 36-thousand petitions to Republican Senator Chuck Grassley’s offices in six Iowa cities. Matt Sinovic says they want to send a message to Grassley about President Obama’s nominee for the opening on the U.S. Supreme Court…
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Grassley is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and he does NOT plan to hold a committee hearing on the nominee, regardless of who Obama may pick.
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A new C-N-N poll finds 58 percent of Americans want President Obama to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. An even larger percentage — 66 percent — say Grassley’s committee should at least hold a hearing for the nominee. Sinovic says Grassley is failing to fulfill his constitutional duty as a senator…
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Sinovic and about a dozen other activists were at Grassley’s Des Moines office yesterday afternoon, while others delivered petitions at Grassley’s offices in Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Davenport, Sioux City and Waterloo.