White House declines to name Supreme Court candidates

“We’ll make a decision. over the next few days and we’ll be announcing it on Monday”, Trump said. Even though McConnell changed Senate rules previous year to allow confirmation by simple majority, if Democrats hold together, he can not afford defections.

That possibility has left many looking to two pro-choice Republican senators, Sens. “It would be fair to say the president is not going to pick somebody who has a clear record of opposition to Roe v. Wade?”.

CNSNews.com asked Paul on Friday whether he wants President Donald Trump to nominate a judge who thinks “an unborn child with a beating heart is a “person” entitled to equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment”. “We believe him. Don’t you, Senator Collins?”

He consulted with advisers over the weekend at his Bedminster, N.J., golf club, and the White House has mobilized a team to manage the nomination process.

Lee’s office characterized the conversation as an interview.

Abortion is not the only key issue Nelson worries about with a new Supreme Court justice.

Sri Srinivasan, a judge on the DC circuit court of appeals, came closest to be named but lost in one-to-one toss up in 2016, when President Barack Obama went with Merrick Garland, whose nomination was blocked by a Republican-controlled United States senate. Like Kethledge, he is now is a judge on the USA court of appeals for the sixth circuit.

Since each Supreme Court justice needs 51 votes to be confirmed, Democrats would only need one Republican to side against the nominee, assuming no Democrats break rank. Republicans control the chamber by only a slim majority, making the views of moderates, including some Democrats, important.

To facilitate logistics of the power change, President Trump’s assistant Don McGahn will oversee the selection and confirmation, while White House aide Raj Shah will head the comms operation. “It’s clearly precedent, and I always look for judges who respect precedent”.

Trump also spoke about recent comments made by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) calling for people to harass Trump officials in public and said that between those comments and the increasing number of Democrats calling to abolish ICE, he thinks Democrats will “never win another election”. Some also raised concern about his approach to the Affordable Care Act. He says both would be threatened by a conservative Trump nominee.

There have also been lobbying efforts around other candidates.

He was earlier a prosecutor in OH where he grew up, a USA attorney in Kentucky, and a trial-court judge. Kethledge, a Michigan Law graduate who has been a Michigan-based appellate court judge for the past decade, would add academic diversity to a court steeped in the Ivy League.

Trump has said he will announce his Supreme Court nominee on July 9. Barrett told the senators that her faith would not affect her decisions as a judge.

But her short tenure on the bench may work against her.

Voters overwhelmingly agree with the Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Monday. He sided with the majority in narrow 5-4 rulings in favor of gun rights in 2008 and 2010.