Reuters: Obama Narrows SCOTUS List To 2, Could Announce Wednesday

FILE - In this June 9, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Washington. A landmark trade bill that tops President Barack Obama’s second-term agenda faces a showdown vote in the House as Democrats mount... FILE - In this June 9, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Washington. A landmark trade bill that tops President Barack Obama’s second-term agenda faces a showdown vote in the House as Democrats mount a last-ditch effort to kill it. The outcome was uncertain and the drama intense heading into Friday’s votes. In frantic 11th-hour maneuvering, liberals in the House defied their own president and turned against a favored program of their own that retrains workers displaced by trade. Killing the program would kill the companion trade bill, and many Democrats and labor leaders advocated just that. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File) MORE LESS
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Citing an unnamed source, Reuters reported late Tuesday that President Obama had narrowed his short list of potential Supreme Court nominees to two men and could announce his nominee as early as Wednesday.

The final two candidates for the seat left open by the death of Antonin Scalia are Judge Sri Srinivasan and Judge Merrick Garland, both of whom sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, Reuters reported, citing a “source familiar with the selection process.”

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