Yup, nothing at all to do with people not wanting to tip the court to the left.
WASHINGTON – Bernie Sanders claimed that “racist efforts” are behind the moves to undermine President Obama.
“What you are seeing today in this Supreme Court situation is nothing more than the continuous and unprecedented obstructionism that President Obama has gone through,” Sanders said at a town hall in Columbia, South Carolina, Tuesday night.
Republican Senate leaders announced Tuesday they would ignore any nominee Obama puts forward to succeed Justice Antonin Scalia, arguing that the next president should make the decision.
“And this is on top of this birther issue, which we heard from Donald Trump and others — a racist effort to try to de-legitimatize the president of the United States. Can you imagine that?