Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Thursday pledged to block Supreme Court nominees on a partisan basis whom President Donald Trump could seek to appoint.

A vacancy on the Supreme Court in the next two years, due to a retirement or death, would give Trump the opportunity to appoint a new justice, who must go to the Senate for final confirmation, before leaving office.

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