Home-State Editorial Boards To GOP Senators: Do Your Job

The pressure is on for the Senate’s Republican conference. Voters want Senators Rob Portman, Ron Johnson, Kelly Ayotte, Pat Toomey, Roy Blunt, John McCain, Chuck Grassley, Marco Rubio, Richard Burr, and the rest of their GOP colleagues, to do their jobs and end their strict obstructionism on the president’s Supreme Court nominee.

How long will obstructionist Majority Leader Mitch McConnell be able to keep up his partisan posturing as the members of his conference face mounting pressure from their constituents?

Ohio, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Arizona, Iowa, Florida, and North Carolina editorial boards are imploring their senators to act and consider President Obama’s nominee:

SENATOR ROB PORTMAN

Columbus Dispatch: Editorial: GOP blunders on nomination

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Editorial: Sen. Rob Portman should go his own way on Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination: editorial

Toledo Blade: Editorial: Give judge a hearing, vote

Cincinnati Enquirer: Editorial: Reject Supreme Court gridlock, senators

Star Beacon: Editorial: Garland should get a hearing

SENATOR RON JOHNSON

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Editorial: Senate must do its job and give Merrick Garland a hearing

The Capital Times: Editorial: Ron Johnson and GOP candidates assault the Constitution

SENATOR KELLY AYOTTE

Concord Monitor: Editorial: The game is clear, so let’s not pretend

Concord Monitor: Editorial: In high court fight, Ayotte is just wrong