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Obama, congressional leaders talk Supreme Court vacancy

President Barack Obama meets with, from left, the Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking member Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid of Nev., Vice President Joe Biden, the president, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 1, 2016, to discuss the vacancy in the Supreme Court. Senate Republican leaders are vowing to block the president's Supreme Court nominee, no matter who it is, with the hope of keeping the seat open for a Republican president to fill next year. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama called Democrats and Republicans to the White House Tuesday to discuss election-year standoff over the vacancy on the Supreme Court. Neither side showed signs of budging.

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