four and a half years ago, when Republicans refused to hold a hearing on an upward down vote from Merrick Garland, they invented the principle that the Senate shouldn't fill an open seat on the Supreme Court, before a new president was sworn in.
Obama discusses the principle established by Republicans regarding Supreme Court nominations.
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Every president here today, as different as we are, has tried our best to uphold the values that John McCain and Mitt Romney believed in no less than I did.
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