Subject: Fwd: The Debate Has Shifted: 21% Net Increase In Support For SCOTUS Vote In Just 2 Months
From: "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>
To: Comm_D <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 07:33:17 -0700

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From: "Yoken, Dan (DPCC)" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>>
Date: April 19, 2016 at 10:27:44 AM EDT
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Subject: The Debate Has Shifted: 21% Net Increase In Support For SCOTUS Vote In Just 2 Months
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In the late-February NBC/WSJ poll, net support for a vote on Judge Garland was +1. In the poll released last night, it’s +22 – a 21-point swing in favor of a vote in two months.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/nbc-poll-majority-wants-vote-scotus-nominee-year-n557946

WSJ: “The Poll Suggested That Republican Opposition To Such A Vote Is Starting To Erode”

“But notably, the poll suggested that Republican opposition to such a vote is starting to erode. Some 24% of Republicans in the survey preferred that the Senate vote this year, up from 16% in March. A slight majority of Republicans—56%—favored waiting to vote until a new president could pick a replacement for Justice Scalia, down from 69% in March who wanted the Senate to wait.”

http://www.wsj.com/articles/majority-of-voters-want-senate-vote-on-supreme-court-seat-this-year-poll-finds-1461013378

MEANWHILE THINGS KEEP GETTING WORSE FOR CHUCK GRASSLEY

Des Moines Register (Obradovich): Grassley finds new reasons to block Garland

Sen. Chuck Grassley keeps offering new reasons for refusing to give Judge Merrick Garland a hearing and a vote on his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. He may as well keep trying, as the explanations he’s given so far for waiting until after the next presidential election are mostly nonsense. … It’s also a naked political argument from Grassley, who has been trying to claim his goal is to avoid mixing up the court nomination in election-year politics. Well, nobody really bought that one, anyway. Keep trying, senator.

http://dmreg.co/1NkllQu

Des Moines Register (Former IA Supreme Court Justice Allbee): To Grassley: Justice delayed is justice denied

I am profoundly disappointed by Sen. Chuck Grassley’s obstinate refusal to conduct a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland. … Sen. Grassley’s recalcitrance appears to be grounded in the politics of the moment, in sacrifice of duty and principle — contrary to what I once believed to be the polestar of his senatorial actions.

http://dmreg.co/1TgU68E

NY Times: When a Senator Passes Judgment on a Chief Justice

Mr. Grassley’s logic, if that is the right word, was that conservative decisions are apolitical but that liberal ones are partisan.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/us/politics/supreme-court-charles-grassley-john-roberts.html?_r=0

Dan Yoken
Deputy Communications Director | Democratic Leader Harry Reid
Research Director| Democratic Policy & Communications Center
[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]> | @DSenFloor<https://twitter.com/DSenFloor>
(202) 224-2939
<http://www.dpcc.senate.gov/>

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