All 11 have solid conservative credentials.
Advertisement
Trump’s list, released in a written press statement yesterday afternoon, will reportedly be a “guide”: the Republican didn’t say he would definitely choose from these 11 when nominating Supreme Court justices, but these are the kind of folks he’d consider.
“The list includes some of the most extreme conservatives on the federal bench today”, she said.
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump said he would be adding to his list of potential Supreme Court nominees, which he released on Wednesday. “His career was defined by his reverence for the Constitution and his legacy of protecting Americans”.
Some of the judges on Trump’s list have ruled against abortion and birth control rights.
We hope the Obama administration pushes past the Republican Party’s political brinksmanship to appoint a Supreme Court justice before the president leaves office. All eight justices are Ivy League law school graduates.
Among the social conservatives who are supporting Trump after strongly opposing him in the primaries are Dannenfelser and Penny Nance, president of Concerned Women for America, The New York Times reported May 15.
Thomas Hardiman, a judge on the Third Circuit Court who was appointed by Bush in 2006.
Pryor, meanwhile, is a former Alabama attorney general and a vocal critic of the Roe V. Wade decision that enshrined abortion rights.
Justices at state-based Supreme Courts Allison Eid (Colorado), Joan Larsen ( Michigan), Thomas Lee (Utah), David Stras (Minnesota) and Don Willett (Texas) have also been nominated.
The court has been operating shorthanded since Scalia’s death. In 2013, Judge Pryor was confirmed to a term on the United States Sentencing Commission. Being named alongside them for any objective is a rich honor.
The next president could end up having to fill several Supreme Court vacancies, including the one that has been left open by Scalia’s death.
Federal appeals court judge Raymond Gruender wrote a 2012 ruling upholding a South Dakota law that requires doctors to inform patients that women who have abortions are more likely to commit suicide.
Colloton’s inclusion drew praise from a fellow Iowan, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley. We’re either going to choose from this list or people very close to it. At a minimum, we will keep people from this general realm. He received his law degree from Yale, and he clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist.
Republicans have refused hearings for Garland, however, claiming that the next president is best suited to replace Scalia.
“I would be surprised if there are any Democrats who would describe any of those 11 individuals as a consensus nominee”, said Earnest during a press event.
Advertisement
The stalemate over the Supreme Court vacancy and Obama’s Garland nomination has become a rallying point for both parties. While some Republicans who oppose Trump have considered supporting Hillary Clinton or sitting out the election, he has regularly reminded them that the future of the Supreme Court is at stake.
