claim: blocking a u.s. supreme court nomination during the remaining months of president obama’s term "would leave the nation’s highest court with an unprecedented year-long vacancy."
author: new hampshire democratic party
evidence_1: feb 13, 2016 ... “the american people should have a voice in the selection of their next ... “it  would be unprecedented in recent history for the supreme court to ... "we've  never had vacancy and nomination [for] a year that didn't get voted on," sen. ...  and his controversial statement, during obama's first term, that his prime ...
evidence_2: blocking a u.s. supreme court nomination during the remaining months of ...  obama's term "would leave the nation's highest court with an unprecedented ...
evidence_3: following the february 2016 death of associate justice of the us supreme court  antonin scalia, president barack obama nominated merrick garland to fill  scalia's seat on the supreme court on march 16, 2016. at the time of his  nomination, garland was the chief judge of the united .... there were however  11 months left to president obama's term at the time of ...
evidence_4: blocking a u.s. supreme court nomination during the remaining months of ...  obama's term "would leave the nation's highest court with an unprecedented ...
evidence_5: mar 20, 2017 ... as the new administration seeks to fill a vacancy on the court, ... subscribe (top  menu) ... a supreme court justice was dead, and the president, in his last year in  office ... nominee's bid was forestalled by the u.s. senate, blocked due to .... fill a  supreme court seat left vacant for months, and congress killed ...