Ben Carson Says He’s Advising Donald Trump On SCOTUS Noms

Republican presidential candidates Ben Carson, left, and Donald Trump talk before the start of the CNN Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015,... Republican presidential candidates Ben Carson, left, and Donald Trump talk before the start of the CNN Republican presidential debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015, in Simi Valley, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) MORE LESS
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Ben Carson is advising Donald Trump on the list of potential Supreme Court nominees the GOP frontrunner says he would put forward as president, Carson told the Washington Post.

Trump has said he plans to release during the campaign a list 10 to 12 people he would possibly nominate for the Supreme Court. Carson told the Post that he and Trump went through the list over the phone Tuesday.

“We now talk from time to time, including today, and we went over his list, which I think would be extraordinary,” Carson said. “He’s got his team studying these people very carefully.”

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  1. I literally laughed out loud imagining that conversation.

  2. Wonderful!

    Does Ben know that Perry Mason was a TV character? And that not only was Marcus Welby a TV character that he played a doctor not a lawyer?

    Mr Ed was a horse of course of course…

    Someone needs to whisper these things in Ben’s ear.

  3. Hopefully he’s sticking to his area of expertise (which potential nominees have had brain surgery and how well that went).

  4. Welp. I don’t know about you guys but I find this news quite a bit more disconcerting than Patricia Lockwood’s “f**k me daddy” Tweet to Donald Trump. And, with that, I’m going for a run.

  5. Yea … I, at least, hope the people are alive ---- But with the Dr. … ?

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