Trump: Search For New Supreme Court Justice Will Begin ‘Immediately’

NEW LONDON, CT - MAY 17: US President Donald Trump looks on as he hands out diplomas to Coast Guard cadets at the commencement ceremony at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, May 17, 2017 in New London, Connecticut. This i... NEW LONDON, CT - MAY 17: US President Donald Trump looks on as he hands out diplomas to Coast Guard cadets at the commencement ceremony at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, May 17, 2017 in New London, Connecticut. This is President Trump's second commencement address since taking office and comes amid controversy after his firing of FBI Director James Comey. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump reacted to news that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring in real time on Wednesday, telling reporters that the search for a new justice will begin “immediately.”

“Hopefully we’re going to pick somebody who will be just as outstanding,” he said, referencing Kennedy.

Trump thanked Kennedy for his years of service and said he is a man of “tremendous vision” and “tremendous heart.”

“So I just want to thank Justice Kennedy for the years of tremendous service,” he said. “He is a very spectacular man. Really is a spectacular man. And I know that he will be around hopefully for a long time to advise and I believe he will be teaching and doing other things. So thank you to Justice Kennedy.”

He told reporters that his pick will come from an existing list of 25 “highly educated, highly intelligent, hopefully tremendous” conservative judges that he’s been referencing since the early days of his campaign.

Kennedy announced his retirement Wednesday afternoon, effective at the end of July.

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  1. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    Aw f***. They’re going to do it before the midterms.

  2. Avatar for msc00 msc00 says:

    I guess on the bright side this should ramp up Democratic motivation even higher for the midterms.

    Tough to see Roe and Obergefell go, though.

  3. If conservatives don’t like anything Congress or Executive branch does for the next generation, they have an automatic veto. This is so fucking wrong

  4. Give SCOTUS a few years. Soon enough it’ll be gays back in the closet, prayer back in the schools, abortion illegal, school kids taught the planet is 6000 years old and evolution taught as science is the work of the devil, redlined real estate lending, the end of affirmative action hiring and education standards, smog in the cities, etc. The GOP is going to take us back to 1950 or kill us all trying.

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