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Grassley: We Will Follow ‘Biden Rules,’ No SCOTUS Vote in 2016

Click here: “Justice Scalia’s death marks the first time a sitting Supreme Court justice has passed away in a presidential election year in 100 years,” Grassley, chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, said.
Chairman Grassley made clear that he intends to follow then Senator Joe Biden’s Rules if President Barack Obama makes a Supreme Court nomination.
In 1992, then Senator Joe Biden “emphasized that in four vacancies that arose during a presidential election year, the president exercised restraint and withheld from making a nomination until after the election,” Grassley declared. He added, “One of those presidents was Abraham Lincoln.”