Posted on 07/05/2018 2:39:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump is closing in on his next Supreme Court nominee, with three federal judges leading the competition to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy. Trump’s top contenders for the vacancy at this time are federal appeals judges Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Raymond Kethledge, said a person familiar with Trump’s thinking who was not authorized to speak publicly.
Working closely with a White House team and consulting with lawmakers and outside advisers, Trump has spent the week deliberating on the choice. He conducted interviews on Monday and Tuesday. He has not yet publicly indicated that he has narrowed the list and could still consider others in the mix.
With customary fanfare, Trump plans to announce his selection Monday night, kicking off a contentious nomination process as Republicans seek to shift the court to the right and Democrats strive to block the effort....
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
This is Time frickin Time magazine. Zero insight to Trump.
How often was Neil Gorsuch’s name floated around before his pick? If memory serves, all the media kept saying it was between Gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman, and that ended up being right.
“...said a person familiar with Trump’s thinking who was not authorized to speak publicly.”
Did Trump authorize this leak or is someone speaking out of turn? I wish I knew.
Yup. It’s Fake News. Only DJT knows whats going on.
Not just Time. These three are fairly well confirmed to be the finalists by multiple media in contact with various sources. However, it could change if something comes up about one or more at last minute...or if POTUS gets fed up with the bitter backstabbing going on behind the scenes.
My guess is that at least one of them is largely only there to act as a lightning rod to draw all the leftist nutters to overstep and deflect criticism from the real nominee.
Likewise, I think at least one of the others is actually in contention, maybe even the favorite, and is being floated to get a sense of conservative reaction.
Yep but then things could change.... Trump is his own man.
Kavanaugh, Kethledge and Barrett met with Trump on July 2 at
the White House. Trump plans to announce his choice the night
of Monday, July 9.
Unnamed sources
Trump will announce then we will know
It doesn’t matter if we think the choice is a good one. Trump posted that list when he ran. If you didn’t like it ......
Also note Pruitt resigned today because of all the harassment. This is getting really ugly. Conservatives shouldn’t add to it
Who cares. ???? Wait till Monday
Not as if you of I can change it
All very possible but my gut weighs in too.
It says Amy.
A woman from outside the Harvard-Yale “beltway,” - brilliant, well-respected and a former law clerk to the late great Justice Scalia.
GO AMY!
The real action is going on behind the scenes. Truthfully, he should have made his selection interviews right after Kennedy retired on the 27th of June. Making his choice, then, notifying the select group of senators, then the judge has to undergo days of practice runs with hostile panels, to help insure they won’t break under stress.
The busiest person will be Mitch McConnell, who is going to have to make sure the vote in the entire senate is a winner. This means arm twisting several Democrat senators to vote in his favor.
“said a person” = more damn rumors being published by the leftist fake stream as if rumors are “news” ...
Time Magazine - By Catherine Lucey, Ken Thomas and Lisa Mascaro, The Associated Press
If that’s the source then I agree. None of those three are likely to be chosen.
Holiday week. So, they could only find three authors.....
The push by the NeverTrumper set for Barrett has me at full alert.
More I look into her, less comfortable I am. I simply don’t see how going to law school, being a professor, and being a judge leaves time to be a proper mother to seven children - especially with two adoptees and a “special needs” child in the mix. Just handling a special needs child alone can be a full time job in and of itself.
Had she raised her kids then gone onto a law career, that would be perfectly fine. But the ethic of putting one’s career ahead of one’s kids is totally and completely unacceptable. This nation does not survive if that ethic prevails.
And now I see a whole lot of really dishonest people pushing her very hard and my every instinct is screaming that this is wrong, wrong, wrong.
I hope he provided three different names to everyone, "in the know" to see who published which three.
exactly.
I get information that is allowed to be slipped but I despise and would NEVER put up with anybody who leaked information; Zero tolerance for those who have no discipline and break rules/laws.
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