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His Democratic challenger Russ Feingold supports Obama and the Senate moving forward with filling the vacancy. Among those voters, 37 percent said they would support Bradley while 36 percent favored Kloppenburg.

Scalia’s death left the court with four conservative and four liberal justices, meaning that Obama’s nominee could tip the balance of the court to the left for the first time in decades.

The Marquette University Law School poll showed 51 percent want a vote this year, while 40 percent believe it should be put off until next year when there is a new president.

Democrats want President Obama to nominate someone now, while Republicans say it should wait until the next president.

And rather than try to appoint a progressive-minded justice who will prevent the imposition upon women’s right to choose and marriage equality across the nation among other key issues, the president has dangled the carrot of a Republican justice before the obstructionist congress to see if they will bite.

Durbin told WJBC’s Dan Swaney a one-year vacancy on the Supreme Court would be the longest since the Civil War.

All 11 Republican members of the Judiciary Committee signed a letter Tuesday saying that they would not move forward on any nomination made by Obama.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell has vowed that “This nomination will be determined by whoever wins the presidency in the polls”. But Bradley also says she is not taking a position on “political issues like that”. “The president has a constitutional duty to nominate justices to the Supreme Court”. This prompted the firm to appeal to the Supreme Court in 2014. The Senate race between Johnson and Feingold won’t be decided until November.

Neal Katyal, who served as Acting Solicitor General of the USA from May 2010 until June 2011 and California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who is considered to be very close to Obama, are also in the race for the prestigious post.