Bill Lee: “One of the titles of these articles is ``Blacks See Bias in Delay on a Scalia Successor.'' The other is The New York…”

“One of the titles of these articles is ``Blacks See Bias in Delay on a Scalia Successor.'' The other is The New York Times article, ``Senate Republicans Lose Their Minds on a Supreme Court Seat.'' Likewise, Judiciary Committee Chair Charles Grassley of Iowa led a letter to the majority leader signed by all the Republican Committee members confirming their resolve to not have hearings or a vote on the nominee. This is downright ludicrous. Republicans cannot and should not use the Supreme Court to push their radical political agenda. The Constitution is clear, Mr. Speaker. Article II, section 2, ``He shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate . . . shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court.'' Nowhere in the Constitution does it say, ``except in an election year'' or ``except when the President is a Democrat'' or ``when Republicans have spent the last 7 years actively working to subvert every policy proposed by a President elected by nearly 70 million Americans.'' The Constitution doesn't say that. This is simply unacceptable, and the American people deserve better. For more than a century, every single Supreme Court nominee has received a vote on the floor of the United States Senate. Just like all the Presidents before him, President Obama should nominate a Supreme Court Justice, and the Senate should determine if he or she is fit to serve on this Nation's High Court.…”