#US President #BarackObama  to announce his Supreme Court nominee

The president will name Justice Scalia’s successor in the Rose Garden at 11am, the White House said.

“As president, it is both my constitutional duty to nominate a justice and one of the most important decisions that I — or any president — will make,” President Obama said in the email to supporters. “In putting forward a nominee today, I am fulfilling my constitutional duty. I’m doing my job. I hope that our senators will do their jobs, and move quickly to consider my nominee.”

Reuters is citing one anonymous source who said that President Barack  Obama will decide between Judge Sri Srinivasan or Judge Merrick Garland to replace Justice Scalia, who passed away on February 13. Both Srinivasan, 49, and Garland, 63, serve together on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

However, Senate Republicans have vowed to block President  #BarackObama nominee for the lifetime position on the court. The Republicans hope to stall the decision until a new president is elected come November and have even created a task force to do so.

“We’re going to hold everyone accountable and make sure Democrats have to answer to the American people for why they don’t want voters to have a say in this process,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus previously said in a statement.

If nominated, Srinivasan would be the first Asian-American and Hindu to serve on the high court, according to Reuters. President Barack  Obama appointed Srinivasan to the appeals court in 2013.

Garland has served as the chief justice of the Washington appeals court since 1997, when he was appointed by President Bill Clinton.