NASHUA, N.H. – U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte on Friday doubled down on her contention that the next president should nominate a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, not President Barack Obama.
The Granite State Republican unleashed an avalanche of tweets just after 1:30 p.m. Friday and directed followers to an article she wrote for the opinion pages of the Nashua Telegraph, her hometown newspaper. In the piece, she points out that the conservative justice's death created an evenly divided court on many issues and accused Democrats of using the vacancy to "try to score political points."
