Atlanta, GA – Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today in response to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s suggestion that Hillary Clinton should re-nominate Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, if she is elected president.

“Harry Reid and the rest of the liberals in Congress continue to reveal the agenda all along has been to pack the Supreme Court with a liberal majority for the next several decades.  Polls have repeatedly shown the American people do not want a liberal-dominated Supreme Court.  Garland’s record clearly shows he will be a reliably liberal vote along with Justices Ginsburg, Kagan, Sotomayor and Breyer on every meaningful case that comes before the court.  He is clearly anti-Second Amendment, anti-business and pro-regulation.  He has ruled in favor of the Environmental Protection Agency and environmental activist groups, as well as organized labor, every time they’ve come before his court.  The Senate Republicans are right in their position of no hearings and no vote on Mr. Garland.”

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