Citizens United President David N Bossie statement on President Obama’s Supreme Court nomination

“It’s disappointing that President Obama disregarded Vice President Biden’s advice from 1992 and refused to honor the decades long tradition of not putting forward a Supreme Court nomination during an election year.

I have confidence that the Republican-controlled Senate, put in power by grassroots conservative voters, will stand strong for principle and precedent and not budge on this process until 2017.

Senators McConnell, Grassley and the rest of the Republican Senators must not allow the Supreme Court to drastically shift to the left by considering this nominee.

Furthermore, Merrick Garland would be a judicial activist who would seek to legislate from the bench, disregard the Constitution, and methodically hammer away at the Bill of Rights.”