Some were controversial when they were nominated to the federal appeals courts they now serve on.
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Willett sometimes tweets 10-plus times per day, but insisted then that he is ever-cautious, careful not to discuss issues that could come before his court.
Several of the jurists previously clerked for conservative Supreme Court justices after law school.
In April, the eight justices now on the Supreme Court heard a challenge to Obama’s court-halted executive action on immigration.
Sykes is the ex-wife of Charlie Sykes, a conservative Wisconsin talk show host who criticized Trump during the state’s presidential primary held April 5.
Donald Trump offered up a list of 11 potential Supreme Court nominees Wednesday, as the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee sought to reassure his party he understands the importance of the high court battle with a slate of conservative picks.
Most of the 11 judges did not respond to requests for comment.
On Wednesday, May 18, Trump, the only remaining Republican candidate, put forward a list of potential replacements to fill the void left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February.
Democratic President Barack Obama in March named centrist appellate court judge Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy. He received his law degree and master’s degree in business from the University of Kansas, and clerked for Thomas. A close look a Trump’s list, however, reveals judges interested in protecting what is already the law of the land, the Constitution – not judges ready to rubber-stamp any and every part of a president’s partisan agenda.
Her reply: “Much like being a man clerking for Justice Scalia is my response”.
It also includes: Raymond Kethledge of MI, a judge on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals; William Pryor of Alabama, a judge on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals; and Diane Sykes of Wisconsin, a judge on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The main point, of course, was to reassure Republicans that he really would name a new justice in the mold of Antonin Scalia – someone who’d resist the temptation to read his or her own policy preferences into the Constitution and the law. “I think he needs to send some good signals like this that he wants to consider people like Don Willett on the U.S. Supreme Court”.
Justice Don Willett is not a big fan of Donald Trump. Supposing he picks a liberal judge or supposing he picks a pro-choice judge, ‘”Trump said at an event in Palm Beach, Florida”.
The state supreme court justices included Joan Larsen of MI, a former clerk to Scalia; and Allison H. Eid of Colorado, David Stras of Minnesota and Thomas Rex Lee of Utah, all of whom clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas.
Eid is married to Troy Eid, a former USA attorney for Colorado and nationally recognized expert on Native American tribal law.
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. Her group had not researched some of the state judges yet, she said.
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Thomas Lee is a justice on the Utah Supreme Court.
