Hatch: ‘Advise and consent’ is to protect Supreme Court

The fight over a replacement for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is heating up this week, with plans for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, to meet with Barack Obama over the issue. Obama’s spokesman, Josh Earnest, has confirmed the president is going to nominate…