{"id":46953,"date":"2022-04-05T16:08:14","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T23:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46953"},"modified":"2022-04-05T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T23:08:14","slug":"gop-sends-biden-warning-shot-on-future-supreme-court-vacancies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=46953","title":{"rendered":"GOP sends Biden warning shot on future Supreme Court vacancies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans are refusing to say if they would fill a future potential Supreme Court vacancy during President Biden\u2019s remaining tenure in a warning shot to the White House as the GOP aims to take back control of Congress after the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Comments from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) about how a GOP-controlled Senate would approach Biden judicial nominees is intensifying questions about whether Republicans would refuse a high court pick from the Democratic president should the GOP control the chamber in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That notion would mark a major escalation of the long-running, and increasingly antagonistic, judicial wars that have rocked the Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans are refusing to say&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46954,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46953\/revisions\/46954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}