GOP Senators Say collection Supreme Court Obama will Stunned

WASHINGTON - said Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday that there would be no confirmation hearings, without vote, not even a courtesy meeting with President Obama the candidate 's to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, all but the prospects of closing one election year Supreme Court confirmation.

Along with a written vote Republican in the Senate Judiciary Committee to avoid hampering the confirmation hearings, the pledge was the clearest statement yet of the majority party in the Senate would do everything possible to prevent Mr. Obama to change the ideological balance of the highest court in the land. Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, urged Obama to reconsider even presenting a name.

"This appointment will be determined by whoever wins the presidency at the ballot box," McConnell said. "I agree with the recommendation of the Judicial Committee hearings that we have. In short, there will be no action taken."

His first day back on Capitol Hill since the death of Judge Scalia gave Senate Republicans the opportunity to unite around a message and strategy to defeat Mr. Obama. Capitol huddles together Mr. McConnell and a conclave noon appeared to stop any hesitation and push the Republican troops in line. And they had the ammunition they needed in a floor speech in June 1992 by Joseph R. Biden Jr., then a senator, urging President George Bush against any nomination to the Supreme Court until after the presidential elections of that year.

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