Another Senator Vows To Obstruct Any Hillary Clinton Supreme Court Nominee

Who needs nine justices anyway?

Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) (Photo by Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images)

Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) (Photo by Gabriella Demczuk/Getty Images)

And if Hillary Clinton becomes president, I am going to do everything I can do to make sure four years from now, we still got an opening on the Supreme Court.

— North Carolina Senator Richard Burr, in comments yesterday confirming the political strategy that Senator John McCain later distanced himself from. There’s a growing trend of senators who want to block any Hillary Clinton Supreme Court nominee. Welp, checks and balances are overrated anyway.

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