President Obama will announce his pick to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the unexpected death of Justice Antonin Scalia last month.
The president will make the announcement at 11 a.m. in the Rose Garden, he announced in an email early this morning.
"Today, I will announce the person I believe is eminently qualified to sit on the Supreme Court," the president said in the email.
The president said he has devoted "a considerable amount of time" to making the decision and has reached out to every member of the Senate, which will, ultimately, hold the power to consider and confirm the president's nominee.
Senate Republican leadership has already vowed not to hold hearings on the president's nominee in an election year, arguing that the decision ought to be made by the next president.
In the face of the Republican promise to obstruct the president in his intention to replace Scalia, Obama argues in his email that the Senate has "a responsibility to do their job and take this nomination just as seriously."
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