It just kills them that he keeps his promises!
I don’t believe Cruz is on that list...
Trump met with Leonard Leo, the executive vice president of the right-leaning Federalist Society, at Trump Tower on Wednesday and discussed the evaluation process for filling the vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. Leo and top Trump aide Kellyanne Conway addressed reporters after the meeting...
This was all that was said, the rest are lies...
They don’t bother to give the short list or link to it.
But this seems to be it:
http://www.businessinsider.com/president-elect-donald-trump-supreme-court-list
I have to say that Trump is having a ton of meetings. Of course he probably works twice a long as Obama or Clinton would.
Is there a copy of the lists and are they prioritized?
They are screaming for Obama to appoint some activist Justice somehow but he can’t.
I feel so unbelievably relieved that Trump will be appointing Scalia’s replacement and not Obama or Hillary. I’m glad to see him already meeting with one of the heads of the Federalist Society. Hopefully, he’ll get a conservative constitutionalist on the court quickly.
Don’t you love how they write “right-leaning Federalist Society”. They don’t write “left-leaning Center for American Progress” or “left-leaning Democracy Alliance”.
Selecting someone not on his lists (there were actually two of them, IIRC) would be a blunder, an unforced error.It was dangerous - bold - to create those lists, because any one of the names on them might have proved problematic, and the Democrats might have made major hay. However, now that the election is won the list is a major advantage.
The Democrats love to parrot their mantra, “Judge so-and-so is out of the mainstream.” But that is a nonstarter now that the Democrats have had a chance to damage Trump if they could have convinced people that any one of those names was a clinker - and they passed. Try that mantra now, and the answer will be that the voting public knew about the lists, and every name on them - and they voted for Trump in your state, Senator Foghorn (true of ten incumbent D senators up for reelection). And you are up for reelection in ’18 (half of all D senators are), which is just around the corner. Do you really want to try to make that case??
Why would he veer from anything?
He received a message and believed it.
We Won.