Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said Thursday that the U.S. Senate should “go ahead and hold the hearings” to confirm D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s nominee to the high court.

“But I don’t think they’re going to do that,” Stevens said during an on-stage interview at the New York Historical Society with Marcia Coyle, chief correspondent for The National Law Journal, an affiliate of the New York Law Journal.

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