Conservatives line up behind possible Trump Supreme Court finalists

Collins said Sunday during a television interview that she won’t support a nominee who has “demonstrated hostility” to Roe v. Wade because that would mean “their judicial philosophy did not include a respect for established decisions, established law”. The candidates are said to be Raymond Kethledge, Brett Kavanaugh, Thomas Hardiman, and Amy Coney Barrett.

Like Kethledge, Kavanaugh is a textualist and originalist.

In contrast to the admittedly narrow criticisms of Kethledge and Kavanaugh, Christian conservatives are nearly uniformly backing Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a U.S. Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

“I think I have it down to four people, and I think of the four people, I have it down to three or two”. Since this can not be accomplished through the ballot box, I propose the following: Supreme Court decisions should be submitted and reviewed by all federal judges in both the district and appellate courts, who would then have the power to overrule them. But I have it down to four.

But Shapiro also noted that the judge has made no especially controversial rulings on hot-button issues like abortion or LGBTQ rights, and that a majority of his written opinions deal with reviewing the decisions of government agencies.

The US President has chosen prime time to make the announcement.

Lee has publicly expressed interest in the job noting that he’s been watching Supreme Court arguments “for fun” since he was 10 years old. Rather than politicizing the process or seeking to make the court hyper-partisan, the theory goes, the president should select able, thoughtful nominees who are not extremists – and members of both parties in the U.S. Senate, which is tasked with confirming or rejecting the president’s nominees, should give a measure of deference to the president’s choice.

The Washington Post’s Josh Dawsey reported Friday morning that Trump knows Kavanaugh is “seen as the conventional front-runner” to replace Kennedy and that the president is “being pushed to choose him”.

“I think it’s paid off”, Jennings said.

They argue that the elected president is empowered by the Constitution to nominate Supreme Court justices – and that he should be granted some latitude to do so.

In contrast, during President Barack Obama’s two terms, only 37 percent of judges confirmed were white men. Liberals had a miserable time using their exhausted playbook of attacks against Barrett’s last confirmation because she has a compelling and compassionate life story.

President Trump has spent most of this week interviewing candidates for the SCOTUS nomination.

“It’s a great group of intellectual talent”, Trump said. “He then adds that to how he feels and comes to a conclusion”.

But, through the use of pronouns “her” and “she”, the Utah senator may have tipped his hat as to whom the next Supreme Court justice would be – if the president has made him privy to the information. “The Bush lives loudly in Kavanaugh”.

Cuccinelli’s remark was a wry reference to another contender, Coney Barrett, whom social conservatives unsure about Kavanaugh have rallied behind this week.

Barrett’s profile rose rapidly a year ago with conservative groups after her confirmation hearing featured questioning from Democrats over how her Roman Catholic faith would affect her decisions. “We’re more focused on making sure that we have judges that look at the facts of the case and apply the law”. It’s also possible he could be trying to nudge Trump toward picking Barrett.

“Unlike many people, he’s not a D.C. insider”, Yoo, who shared an office with Kethledge when they clerked for Kennedy from 1997 to 1998.

“[That] is why they’re having this liberal freak-out over what’s to come and they have nobody to blame but themselves”, said Thiessen, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

The president told reporters that the process to replace Kennedy on the high court will “begin immediately”.

Kavanaugh is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Trump called Schumer on Tuesday afternoon for a Supreme Court-centred conversation that lasted less than five minutes, according to a person familiar with the call.

That advertising campaign, directed at Collins, asks whether or not she believes past statements by the president signaling he could seek to appoint justices that would upend the Roe v. Wade precedent.