Group in Sioux City pushes Grassley to act on Supreme Court vacancy

Word that the White House planned to review Kelly was reported Wednesday by the New York Times and Bloomberg News, among others, that cited anonymous sources.

Grassley's leading challenger before Judge's direct involvement was Democratic state Sen. And the high probability of the Supreme Court fight lasting through the election will keep Grassley in the headlines.

He spoke approvingly of the former federal public defender when she was unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 2013 to serve on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The pressure on Senator Chuck Grassley increased today, as groups of Iowa voters converged on all six of the senator's regional state offices, delivering Easter baskets (photo below) containing 7000 copies of Article Two, Section Two of the Constitution, which enumerates the powers of the president, including his responsibility to appoint justices to fill Supreme Court vacancies.

Grassley is under fire for refusing to entertain nominations from President Obama for filling Scalia's seat on the Supreme Court.

In addition to being lieutenant governor under Chet Culver, Judge was the state's secretary of agriculture.

Kurt Meyer, a Democratic activist from Northeast Iowa, said Thursday that Judge's storied role in Hawkeye State politics lends her campaign instant legitimacy.

As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee he would control any Supreme Court hearing to vet a nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, who died unexpectedly last month in Texas. Presently, the Supreme Court hosts multiple former prosecutors and professors but no career defense attorneys.

Hogg on Thursday said he would enjoy a primary with Judge to help find the person best suited to wrestle away Grassley's seat.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid blasted the "ineptness" of Grassley's leadership and Sen. "Grassley is vulnerable", he said. This week, Grassley got into a heated argument with a Des Moines Register reporter, ranting about EPA and Labor Department regulations and Obama "packing" the DC circuit court. "Grassley has become entrenched in this right-wing obstructionist, and I never thought of him that way, the many, many years that he's been in office". He said on the Senate floor that they wouldn't cooperate with a "routine accommodation" he requested that the meeting instead be held in a private room near the Senate chamber so senators could also participate in a floor discussion of a bill to address the heroin crisis. "He's been with us a long time".

Rauner urges lawmakers to reject new education funding plan
The measure also would free up millions of dollars universities have been fronting to students to cover the grants, they said. The House debated restoring hundreds of millions of dollars in college funding for two hours Wednesday afternoon.


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