U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Illinois, was slated Tuesday to be the first Republican congressman to meet with federal appeals Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
Kirk, who is perhaps the most at-risk Senate Republican in the November election, is one of three GOP senators to say the Senate Judiciary Committee should hold hearings on Garland.
Party leaders have vowed to not hold hearings on the president’s selection to succeed long-standing conservative Antonin Scalia, who died Feb. 13, until after a new president is elected to office in November.
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