President Donald Trump said Monday that he had spoken with four potential nominees to fill retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat earlier in the day, and that he would be meeting with “two or three more” before announcing his nominee in a week.
Trump told reporters as he sat beside Mark Rutte, the prime minister of the Netherlands, “I interviewed and met with four potential justices of our great Supreme Court.”
He called the interviewees “outstanding” and “incredible people in so many different ways, academically and every other way.”
He added: “Very interesting, though, was my four meetings. I will be meeting with two or three more, and we will make a decision on the United States Supreme Court, the new justice, that will be made over the next few days and we will be announcing it on Monday. And I look forward to that. I think the person that is chosen will be outstanding.”
Trump told reporters Friday that he’d “narrowed” his list of potential nominees “to about five.” Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) said Sunday that the White House had told her “there have been a few additional, potential nominees added” to Trump’s previously-published list of potential Supreme Court picks.
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I could care less how many potential SCOTUS candidates he met or will be meeting. The nominee will be ultra conservative, against gay rights, voter rights, family planning, regulations of any kind, free speech when it pertains to anyone other than a religious conservative,free press, immigration, health care etc etc etc.
As always, Trump is making the selection a reality/game show.
Trump told reporters as he sat beside Mark Rutte, the prime minister of the Netherlands, …
Every time he answers questions while sitting beside the leader of any foreign country I think, “and the foreign leader probably speaks English more coherently than Trump.”
Sure, they’ve already been carefully vetted the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation for ideological reliability. But … how’d they rate on the fealty meter?
You know, I hate to give him ideas, but why doesn’t the asshole just nominate himself and be done with it?
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You know, I hate to give him ideas, but why doesn’t the asshole just nominate himself and be done with it?
[/quote]If the other justices had to discuss the issues of any case with him for more than 5 minutes max, there’d suddenly be 8 vacancies on the Court.