WASHINGTON (AP) — It may seem like Mission Impossible.
Still, President Barack Obama this week set out on a quest to put his third justice on the Supreme Court, hoping to overcome solid Republican opposition and difficult election-year politics in what likely will be the last major battle of his tenure.
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."
