Trump to announce his Supreme Court pick Tuesday at 8 pm

Senate Democrats are still smarting at the Senate’s inability to convene a hearing for Judge Merrick Garland, President Obama’s pick to fill the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antinino Scalia early past year. Trump can, if he so chooses, put a nominee on the Supreme Court who has openly and correctly declared that Roe v. Wade is the “worst abomination in the history of constitutional law” – and Democrats are powerless to stop him.

Mr. Trump began the SCOTUS selection process several months ago with a list of two dozen names curated by the conservative Heritage Foundation, but he has reportedly pegged three final contenders to fill the seat.

Dick Durbin (D-IL) would not rule out a Democratic filibuster against President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.

“I think all of that plays in”, the source, who requested anonymity, told the Washington Examiner.

Going nuclear paid huge dividends for the left. Scalia died on February 13, 2016, meaning the current vacancy is already near to a full year, and with the time it usually takes for confirmations to be made, it could very well be a record-setting one.

The finalists were revealed to be federal appeals court judges Neil Gorsuch, William Pryor, and Thomas Hardiman.

“He has one of the most stellar academic resumes of the bunch, and we’re talking about some pretty tough competition”, Severino stated.

And Levey said, that’s definitely what Gorsuch is. “He’ll follow it where it goes”, Levey explained. He said the abortion ruling, handed down when he was a boy, influenced his decision to become a Republican and a lawyer.

That has not always been the case when Republican presidents have had a chance to leave their mark on the court.

He also would be a slam dunk vote against abortion rights.

Levey said of Gorsuch, “Highly regarded by almost everyone even on the Left”. Of course they would have.

“We will force vulnerable senators up for re-election in 2018 like Joe Donnelly and Claire McCaskill to decide between keeping their Senate seats or following Chuck Schumer’s liberal, obstructionist agenda”, said Carrie Severino, the chief counsel and policy director of the group. “He’s brilliant, conservative and impossible to oppose”. Nit-picky stuff, Severino suggested.

Mr Gorsuch shares the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s strict interpretation of the United States constitution, which is that it should be followed as the Founding Fathers intended.

On religious freedom, in 2014, he wrote a separate opinion in favor of a Catholic television station that objected to the contraception coverage mandate of the Affordable Care Act. While the court moved to the right in that period, it did not become the conservative bulwark those presidents hoped for. Not unlike the various members of Trump’s cabinet, some of whom are still unconfirmed as the call for additional hearings has been made.

But Severino appreciates Pryor’s willingness to say what he believes in past hearings. According to The Hill and other publications, McConnell is reported to have said, “It takes 67 votes to change the rules in the Senate”. He appointed more than one-third of the federal judiciary and reversed the ideological balance of the 13 US circuit courts of appeals.

Hardiman, 51, sits on the Third Circuit out of Pittsburgh, has displayed a strongly conservative record on the bench, opposing gun control and backing police powers.

Severino admires the way Hardiman fills many hours outside work volunteering and doing charitable work.

The president said the announcement will come next week. “He just sounds like he’s a great guy”. In his dissent, Hardiman argued that the law violated the Second Amendment.