Posted on 07/08/2018 10:50:23 AM PDT by springwater13
President Trump is expressing fresh interest in Judge Thomas M. Hardiman, the runner-up for last year’s Supreme Court vacancy, as he pushes his decision on a replacement for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy into the final hours before his self-imposed deadline of Monday night, three people close to the process said.
All cautioned that Mr. Trump could go a different way before he reveals his choice in a prime-time address on Monday. He has said positive things to associates about Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a staunch social conservative, the people familiar with the process said, and he has not ruled out Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, a former staff secretary to George W. Bush.
But they said he found Judge Hardiman’s personal story to be compelling. Judge Hardiman was the first member of his family to graduate from college, and he helped pay for his education by driving a taxi.
The only judge among the four whom the president appears to have all but ruled out is Raymond M. Kethledge. People close to the process said the president had found him likable but comparatively dull. And some conservatives, whose support has guided Mr. Trump’s thinking about the courts, have voiced concern about Judge Kethledge on issues like immigration.
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Kehtledge, according to Breitbart, was Mitch's top choice because he wasn't a "consistent conservative."
See my post 8 above. After this atrocious deliberate dishonesty I hope that Ann's following is extinguished for good. She's an attorney. She knows better than to lie about something like that.
The Coulter Koolaid Brigade went after Kethledge (who is more conservative than Hardiman) based on nothing.
She still likes Mitt Romney. What more need be said about his powers of discernment?
Getting a solid constitutional conservative through as quickly as possible is crucial to holding the new course we are on and getting us through the election. It’s a good list and the other names can be kept for next couple of times around, which actuarial science says should be coming up pretty soon.
Hope not, but this could be Trump’s last SCOTUS justice. So he better choose an originalist who won’t go soft.
No. It was based on her own lies. She cited a case and then misrepresented what the case was about.
[but this could be Trump’s last SCOTUS justice]
He’ll be appointing more justices during his first and second terms in office.
“He would be an outstanding AJ for SCOTUS.”
While some maybe better than others ALL 25 on the list would be better than the ones Obama selected or for that matter any of the “Liberal” Justices!
NY Times? I think I’ll wait until tomorrow and get it straight from the horse’s mouth.
Sorry, but Roy Moore blowing that Senate race in Alabama means the RINO Sisters hold all the cards, unless you want to count on Joe Manchin to bail the GOP out.
McConnell saved us from Garland. I will trust him on this one.
Those people are no closer to the process than you or I.
It also signals that we have three more deep state moles to root out.
As someone here said earlier, those in the know aren’t talking. Those talking don’t know.
NYT is the last place on earth to know Trump.
Of the 4 finalists, Hardiman and Barrett seem to be the best choices. I think it’s going to be Barrett even though I lean slightly more towards Hardiman.
Lol, a lot of people seem familiar with the President’s thinking these days. Why is Pryor no longer in the discussion, out of curiosity
What I have read about Hardiman, he would be my top pick.
Not as connected to the ivy league schools.
Low key and grounded. Unlikely to bow to D.C. pressure.
Good record on 2A issues.
Ann Coulter is Bill Maher’s ex-girlfriend. Nothing more needs to be said.
New Jersey’s strict regulations for issuing gun permits wound up before Hardiman and his colleagues in 2013. The rules require people who want a permit to carry guns in public to show a “justifiable need,” defined as “specific threats or previous attacks demonstrating a special danger to applicant’s life that cannot be avoided by other means.” While the appeals court upheld the law, Hardiman argued in a dissent that New Jersey’s “may issue” requirements violate the Second Amendment because they curtail people’s right to self defense.
Sounds like he's pointed the right direction on one of the key issues.
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