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During the panel segment Sunday morning on ABC’s This Week, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol schooled ABC News political analyst and former Bush administration official Matthew Dowd on how Democrats have long politicized judicial nominees after Dowd lamented that “Republicans have made a mistake” in reacting to the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia and urged them to consider President Obama’s nominee.
“Republicans have made a mistake in their reaction to this, the initial reaction to this. I think a better tack would have been, listen, the President has a constitutional duty to nominate somebody to the Supreme Court and the U.S. Senate has a constitutional duty to decide whether or not they approve that person,” Dowd complained.