Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley suggests it may be April before a new justice joins the U.S. Supreme Court — but it could be longer if Democrats in the U.S. Senate decide to use the senate’s “filibuster” and block President Trump’s nominee.

 

Grassley leads the senate committee that will hold hearings for whomever Trump nominates.

 

The president plans to make his decision by Friday and will reveal the name of his nominee next week. The ninth seat on the U.S. Supreme Court has been vacant since Justice Antonin Scalia died last February, as Grassley and other Republican senators refused to consider President Obama’s nominee. Grassley was among four senators who went to the White House (Tuesday) to meet with President Trump.