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Delaware Democrat Says Senate Should Act on High Court Nomination

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Senator Chris Coons says that the White House should nominate someone to the U.S. Supreme Court who is confirmable.

The Wilmington News Journal reports that the Delaware Democrat told reporters that the Senate should move forward with an appointment by President Obama to replace Justice Antonin Scalia who died earlier this month.

Even as Coons was responding to questions by reporters Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was on the floor telling his colleagues that no nominee should be considered until after the presidential election in November.

But the Delaware Democrat said he believed there were many Republican Senators who would like to “see us do our job.”

In addition, the Senator said that Republicans were “wildly overreacting” to then Senator Joe Biden’s comments in 1992 for a delay in a court appointment by then President George Herbert Walker Bush.

Coons said that Biden was urging the president not to appoint an ideologue.

Don Rush is the News Director at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.