--- title: Obama Pushes for Merrick Garland: Watch Live Stream Online description: President Obama wants the Senate to give Merrick Garland a hearing and an up-or-down vote canonical: https://time.com/4284936/watch-live-stream-online-president-obama-merrick-garland/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-07T18:30:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T16:32:35.932Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Live: President Obama Tells Republicans to Vote on His Supreme Court Nominee og:description: President Obama wants the Senate to give Merrick Garland a hearing and an up-or-down vote og:url: https://time.com/4284936/watch-live-stream-online-president-obama-merrick-garland/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99d2e9758e60fbdc/69888e1c0b72e3fb2c6e8dab/barack-obama-press-conference-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Obama Delivers Statement On The Economy og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Live: President Obama Tells Republicans to Vote on His Supreme Court Nominee twitter:description: President Obama wants the Senate to give Merrick Garland a hearing and an up-or-down vote twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99d2e9758e60fbdc/69888e1c0b72e3fb2c6e8dab/barack-obama-press-conference-white-house.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: President Obama Tells Republicans to Vote on His Supreme Court Nominee by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 7, 2016 6:30 PM UTC  President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the economy at the James Brady Press Briefing of the White House in Washington, DC. on April 5, 2016. President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the economy at the James Brady Press Briefing of the White House in Washington, DC. on April 5, 2016.Cheriss May—NurPhoto/Corbis by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 7, 2016 6:30 PM UTC President Obama [will speak Thursday afternoon](http://news.uchicago.edu/webcast/president-barack-obama-university-chicago-law-school) at the University of Chicago Law School, where he’s expected to continue [his pressure campaign](http://time.com/4284158/obamas-low-key-barnstorming-for-a-supreme-court-nominee/) against Senate Republicans who have refused to give his nominee for the Supreme Court a hearing or a vote. Obama wants the Senate to give [Merrick Garland](http://time.com/4261007/merrick-garland-supreme-court-barack-obama/), the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, a hearing and an up-or-down vote. Senate Republicans have remained mostly unified in insisting that the next President should fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Obama is scheduled to speak at 3:30 p.m. E.T. 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