--- title: John Kasich: Merrick Garland Should Get Meeting with Senate description: John Kasich said that while he thinks Barack Obama should not have nominated anyone, the Senate should meet with the Supreme Court nominee canonical: https://time.com/4265279/john-kasich-senate-meet-merrick-garland/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-19T20:27:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:03:06.269Z article:section: Politics og:title: John Kasich: Senate Should Meet With Obama's Supreme Court Nominee og:description: "Frankly, they probably ought to all sit down and meet with the guy" og:url: https://time.com/4265279/john-kasich-senate-meet-merrick-garland/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f68cac14fbea754/69888bbf8e0601f0a1465185/john-kasich-garland.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3726 og:image:height: 2096 og:image:alt: Presidential Candidate And Ohio Gov. 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George Frey/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Mar 19, 2016 8:27 PM UTC Republican presidential candidate [John Kasich said](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-kasich-id-consider-nominating-merrick-garland-supreme-court-election-2016/) that while he thinks President Barack Obama should not have nominated someone to fill the Supreme Court’s vacancy, Republicans in the Senate should still meet with the nominee. “I never thought the president should send it because I knew nothing was going to happen,” Kasich said in a [_Face the Nation_ interview](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-kasich-id-consider-nominating-merrick-garland-supreme-court-election-2016/) taped for Sunday’s broadcast. “Frankly, they probably ought to all sit down and meet with the guy.” Obama [nominated Merrick Garland on Wednesday](http://time.com/4261007/merrick-garland-supreme-court-barack-obama/?xid=homepage) to fill the vacancy left after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The appointment was met with [anticipated opposition](http://time.com/4261341/merrick-garland-supreme-court-senate/?xid=homepage) from Republican leaders in the Senate, who have said they won’t hold confirmation hearings for Garland, arguing that the next president should be allowed to select the Supreme Court justice. **Read more:** [Clinton and Sanders Praise Merrick Garland’s Nomination to Supreme Court](http://time.com/4261498/merrick-garland-supreme-court-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders/) In the _Face the Nation_ interview, Kasich said the next president should be allowed to nominate someone because it would then be a unifying process. Asked if he would consider Garland if he’s elected president, Kasich said he’d think about it. “He received, you know, overwhelming support, I think even from Senator Hatch, so of course we’d think about it,” Kasich said, referring to Republican Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, who praised Garland before the nomination. “I want a conservative who’s not going to make the law but who will interpret the law and somebody of high standing,” Kasich said. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4265279/john-kasich-senate-meet-merrick-garland/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4265279/john-kasich-senate-meet-merrick-garland/"},"headline":"John Kasich Says Republicans Should Meet With Obama's Supreme Court Nominee","datePublished":"2016-03-19T20:27:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:03:06.269Z","description":"If elected president, he said he would consider nominating Garland","url":"https://time.com/4265279/john-kasich-senate-meet-merrick-garland/","keywords":["john kasich"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f68cac14fbea754/69888bbf8e0601f0a1465185/john-kasich-garland.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f68cac14fbea754/69888bbf8e0601f0a1465185/john-kasich-garland.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Presidential Candidate And Ohio Gov. 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