Eric Holder: Blocking a Supreme Court nominee is 'the height of arrogance'

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder slammed Senate Republicans' plan to block President Obama's Supreme Court nomination Monday, BuzzFeed News reports.

"The notion that the Majority Leader Sen. [Mitch] McConnell, without knowing who the nominee was going to be, pronounced the nomination dead even before [its] arrival is in some ways the height of arrogance," he said. "But also I think it's irresponsible."

Obama may announce a nominee to replace the late Antonin Scalia as early as this week, Politico reports. Republicans, who hope the new judge will be conservative enough so as to not shift the ideological balance of the court further to the left, have argued that the next president should get to select a nominee.

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