{"id":97075,"date":"2016-03-16T17:02:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T22:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=97075"},"modified":"2016-03-17T10:11:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-17T15:11:04","slug":"hoeven-heitkamp-differ-on-garland-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=97075","title":{"rendered":"Hoeven, Heitkamp differ on Garland nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISMAR<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26946\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hoeven-Sen-300x202.png\" alt=\"Hoeven Sen\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hoeven-Sen-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hoeven-Sen-259x175.png 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Hoeven-Sen.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>CK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp wants a hearing and U.S. Sen. John Hoeven says he won&#8217;t vote for President Barack Obama&#8217;s U.S. Supreme Court nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Obama announced Wednesday that he&#8217;s nominating federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the high court.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republicans say they won&#8217;t fill the seat until after the presidential election and won&#8217;t consider the Democratic president&#8217;s nominees.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-31894\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SenatorHeitkampofficial-300x207.png\" alt=\"SenatorHeitkampofficial\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SenatorHeitkampofficial-300x207.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SenatorHeitkampofficial-253x175.png 253w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/SenatorHeitkampofficial.png 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Heitkamp, a Democrat, urged a hearing and a vote on the nomination. She says some U.S. senators are &#8220;playing politics with our highest court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republican Hoeven says any nominee by Obama &#8220;will support the president&#8217;s regulatory agenda, which is counter to the interests of North Dakota.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The GOP-led Senate must confirm Garland&#8217;s nomination for him to serve on the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) &#8211; U.S. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp wants a hearing and U.S. Sen. John Hoeven says he won&#8217;t vote for President Barack Obama&#8217;s U.S. Supreme Court nominee. Obama announced Wednesday that he&#8217;s nominating federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the high court. Senate Republicans say they won&#8217;t fill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97095,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97075\/revisions\/97095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}