Obama has reportedly narrowed down his Supreme Court search to 3 leading contenders

Obama undeterred by GOP resistance.
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Senate Republicans' pushback hasn't stopped President Obama from moving forward with his Supreme Court nomination process, NPR reports. Obama is reportedly already well into the process of interviewing candidates to fill the vacancy left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia and, out of those candidates interviewed, he reportedly has narrowed it down to three top picks.

The current top contenders for the nomination are two judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C., Chief Judge Merrick Garland and Judge Sri Srinivasan, as well as Judge Paul Watford, of the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. All three have received bipartisan support in the past, a plus to Obama as he battles Republicans' calls for the vacancy to be filled by the next president.

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