Democrats launch new push for Obama U.S. Supreme Court nominee

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supporters of Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama's U.S. Supreme Court selection, on Tuesday launched a new push to persuade the Republican-led Senate to act on the nomination before the Nov. 8 presidential election, but their calls fell on deaf ears. With senators returning to work after a seven-week summer recess, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid called the refusal of Republicans to consider Garland's nomination "disgusting and repugnant." "Republicans have deadlocked our entire system of justice because of the Republican Senate's dysfunction," Reid said.