Supreme Court Nomination Drives Groups From Left and Right to Fight
WASHINGTON — More than 100 protest rallies have been scheduled in key electoral states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and Iowa. Television advertisements are being scripted. Twitter and Facebook campaigns are rolling out, and email blasts are filling up inboxes.
With the nomination Wednesday by President Obama of Merrick B. Garland to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, advocacy groups from the left and the right are now fully engaged in what both sides agree will be a highly contentious Supreme Court nomination fight — even if the Senate never formally considers the president’s choice.
“Bork and Thomas, those were titanic battles,” said Curt A. Levey, the executive director of FreedomWorks Foundation, a conservative group, referring to the Supreme Court nomination fights over Robert H. Bork in 1987 and Clarence Thomas in 1991. “I think this will be the biggest battle of all.”
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Wade Henderson, the president of the liberal Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, who has worked on Supreme Court nomination fights since Justice Thomas was confirmed, agreed. “There is recognition of what is at stake,” Mr. Henderson said.
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