Trump Adds Names to Supreme Court Wish List

Among the names on the list to be released Friday: Utah Sen.

Keith Blackwell, a justice of the Georgia Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON-Donald Trump’s Supreme Court short list is growing longer-and a little more diverse.

Young said Larsen would be a good fit on the Supreme Court, which has been operating with one vacancy since February following the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The only African American judge on Trump’s list, Young previously served as a judge on the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Trump’s addition of Mike Lee is intriguing: Lee, a closest friend in the Senate to Trump’s former rival Texas Sen.

Moreno is the only Latino judge on Trump’s list. It turns out that there are ten, so the Trump Eleven is now the Trump Twenty-One. But Lee didn’t express much immediate interest in the job.

News said it would include US Senator Mike Lee, a prominent supporter of former Trump foe Ted Cruz.

Neil Gorsuch and Timothy Tymkovich sit on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, while Amul Thapar and Federico Moreno serve on federal district courts in Kentucky and Florida, respectively.

Update: The Trump campaign has released the names of those it is adding to the list.

Other prospective nominees have the look of longshots, or at least of unconventional selections.

Here’s a fun one: U.S. Supreme Court.

CBS News’s Major Garrett also confirmed the expanded list.

The ages of some of the people raise questions about their plausibility as nominees.

“Donald Trump continues to take unprecedented steps to demonstrate that he intends to appoint justices like Scalia, Thomas and Alito”, Severino says. I would like to thank the Federalist Society, The Heritage Foundation and the many other individuals who helped in composing this list of twenty-one highly respected people who are the kind of scholars that we need to preserve the very core of our country, and make it greater than ever before.

“How much personal capital he would invest in judicial nominations?”

Trump also wants a conversation in Republican circles about the Supreme Court before Monday’s debate because concern over the makeup of the court can be the issue that tilts reluctant GOP voters his way. “You better think about that real hard, Colorado”.

Referring to Trump’s book, he added, “Is it a matter of principle and heart and soul, or is it “The Art of the Deal”?”