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Senate Will Not Vote on Obama's Justice Nomination

<p>The president of Concerned Women For America&comma; Penny Nance&comma; recently said that conservatives face an incredibly important battle in opposing Merrick Garland&comma; the liberal Supreme Court pick made by Obama&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;This is a very important moment in the republic&period; This is why the people gave the Senate back to the Republicans&period; This is a check and balance in a president who&rsquo&semi;s out of control&comma;&rdquo&semi; Nance said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nance believes that the inclusion of Garland will threaten the preservation of the Second Amendment and traditional marriage because of his extremely liberal views&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Democratic party has already begun to place pressure on both Senator Mitch McConnell and Senator Chuck Grassley to confirm Obama&rsquo&semi;s choice&period; Despite this pressure&comma; McConnell&comma; the Senate Republican Majority Leader&comma; told Obama that there will not be a vote held&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In his Senate floor speech&comma; McConnell said&comma; &ldquo&semi;It seems clear that President Obama made this nomination not with the intent of seeing the nominee confirmed&comma; but in order to politicize it for the purposes of the election&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Instead of spending more time debating an issue where we can&rsquo&semi;t agree&comma; let&rsquo&semi;s keep working to address the issues where we can&comma;&rdquo&semi; he said&comma; asking Obama to let the American people decide who the nominee should be&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When McConnell reached out to Garland via phone&comma; he reiterated that the Senate would not discuss the matter until the next President is in office and given a nomination&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One organization that is pushing for Garland to be included on the Supreme Court is Planned Parenthood&comma; who have already began to lobby the Senate to hold a vote&period; Planned Parenthood would benefit greatly by Garland replacing the conservative&comma; pro-life Justice Antonin Scalia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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