Trump's List of SCOTUS Nominees - Granite Grok

Trump’s List of SCOTUS Nominees

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Presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee Donald J. Trump released a list of names of possible nominees for appointment to the US Supreme Court–should he be elected President.

(Fox) Top picks include conservative federal and state judges like Steven Colloton of Iowa, Allison Eid of Colorado and Raymond Gruender of Missouri.

Also on the list are: Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania, Raymond Kethledge of Michigan, Joan Larsen of Michigan, Thomas Lee of Utah, William Pryor of Alabama, David Stras of Minnesota, Diane Sykes of Wisconsin and Don Willett of Texas. Trump had previously named Pryor and Sykes as examples of kind of justices he would choose.

The news comes as Trump is working to bring together a fractured Republican Party and earn the trust of still-skeptical establishment Republicans who question his electability in the general election, as well as conservatives in his party still wary of his commitment to their cause.

This is a good group but we are still talking Trump. This is as much a potential list as a likely one. As with all things Trump, next week or next month it could be different and anyone on the old list could be on the front page of a tabloid.

So I take the list as a sign–he did make time to claim it for his own–but with a grain of salt, and hope he is serious about choosing these sorts of Justices for that sort of job. Not that he could ever do worse than Obama or Hillary.

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