title: Clinton: Senate should consider Obama's high court pick 'immediately'
text: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton praised Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland on Wednesday and called on the Republican majority U.S. Senate to begin considering his confirmation immediately. “Evaluating and confirming a Justice to sit on this nation’s highest court should not be an exercise in political brinkmanship and partisan posturing,” Clinton, a former U.S. Secretary of State in President Barack Obama’s administration, said in a statement. Clinton said that the responsibility of the Senate does not depend on the “party affiliation of a sitting president” and “it should begin that work immediately by giving Judge Garland a full and fair hearing followed by a vote.” 