Trump to Announce Supreme Court Pick

U.S. President Donald Trump is due to announce his Supreme Court nominee late Tuesday. The nine-member court has had a vacant seat since the death last year of Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative stalwart on the court for 30 years. Former President Barack Obama had nominated appellate court Judge Merrick Garland to fill the seat.  But the Republican-controlled Senate refused to consider Garland's nomination, saying it wanted the next president to make the...

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