Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Obama Challenges Senate to Hold Hearings on Court Nominee

(Version anglaise seulement)

President Barack Obama says the U.S. Constitution is pretty clear that when there is a vacancy on the Supreme Court, the Senate is to consider whomever the president nominates. Obama told reporters in Rancho Mirage, California, on Tuesday that he challenged anyone to give him a plausible rationale why the Senate would refuse to hold hearings on his choice to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia. He said there was no unwritten law saying a president who is about to leave office...

Lire l'article complet