President Barack Obama has warned Donald Trump he won’t be able to pursue many of his more controversial policies once he is in office. Obama suggested once he was out of office he would uphold the tradition of ex-presidents stepping aside quietly to allow their successors space to govern. But Obama suggested there might be limits to his silence. Asked whether Democrats in the Senate should follow Republicans’ example of refusing to even consider a supreme court nominee, Obama said they should not. “You give them a hearing,” said Obama, whose own supreme court nominee, Merrick Garland, has lingered for more than half a year due to the GOP’s insistence that no Obama nominee be considered.

Source: The Guardian November 21, 2016 01:57 UTC