Trump unveils list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Associated Press

Trump unveils list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices

By JILL COLVIN | May. 18, 2016 2:09 PM EDT

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has released a list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices he plans to vet to fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia.

Trump's picks include Steven Colloton of Iowa, Allison Eid of Colorado and Raymond Gruender of Missouri.

Also on the list are: Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania, Raymond Kethledge of Michigan, Joan Larsen of Michigan, Thomas Lee of Utah, William Pryor of Alabama, David Stras of Minnesota, Diane Sykes of Wisconsin and Don Willett of Texas.

Trump said in March he planned to release the list of potential nominees to ease concerns about his conservative credentials in the Republican primary. ... He said then the list would include judges "that everybody respects, likes and totally admires" and "great conservative judges, great intellects, the people that you want."

Read more: http://elections.ap.org/content/trump-unveils-list-11-potential-supreme-court-justices

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My original link went to the Washington Times: Trump unveils list of 11 potential Supreme Court justices

The Washington Times has a notoriously buggy, pop-up ridden website. It has only gotten worse with time. I couldn't find another U.S. print source for the story, though. If you don't like it, you are free not to click on it. I wish I hadn't, as my computer locked up on all the advertising.

Edit: Never mind. I found the story at the Associated Press.

[ck4829]

1. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, and no.

And if Trump has a problem with it, he should take it up with McConnell.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. other links

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-unveils-list-11-potential-supreme-court-justices-39203784

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-05-18/urgent-trump-unveils-list-of-11-potential-supreme-court-justices

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. The thing I don't like about linking to ABC is that

they have this autoplay video. Between the pop-up ads and the autoplay videos, I don't know which is worse.

Thanks for the link anyway.

ETA: Okay, it's on Bloomberg now too. There will be links for everyone soon enough.

[CurtEastPoint]

5. Yeah, I hate autoplay, too.

[PatSeg]

8. Those drive me nuts!

[Jackie Wilson Said]

3. 1. Robert Bork 2. Ted Nugent 3. Rush Limbaugh 4. Sean Hannity

[Gomez163]

6. Its improper to release this kind of short list until he has the job.

Supreme Court nominations are not supposed to be politicized like this.

[toddwv]

11. Seems like a PR move from not releasing his actual tax forms yet.

[yellowcanine]

15. "Supreme Court nominations are not supposed to be politicized like this"

You forgot the

Seriously you are correct of course, but since when have Republicans worried about that?

[bucolic_frolic]

16. It really is arrogant and presumptuous

Obama's pick can't be considered

but Trump floats his own

He's acting like, in British history, The Old Pretender

[TipTok]

22. Always have been... always will be...

[kairos12]

7. Doesn't matter who it is. Dems should boycott any choice for 4 years. Let the next President choose

and if it's Drump again wait another 4 years.

[Democat]

9. If Obama doesn't get to pick a justice this year, neither does the next Republican

No matter when the next Republican is elected, even if it's eight years from now, Democrats should block all of his court nominees for a year at least.

[Kelvin Mace]

10. Except that the Vichy wing of the party would immediately

cave and approve all his appointments and call it "bipartisanship" and "pragmatism".

[BlueMTexpat]

12. The silver lining ...

I didn't see Palin's name on the list.

I know that she is not qualified by any earthly measure, but in Trump Fanstasyland, anything goes.

[Yupster]

28. Palin for VP

Bristol for the Supreme Court.

[BlueMTexpat]

29. Or vice versa!

Trump likes to keep the younger ones close. Sarah's a bit too long in the tooth for his ego.

[Agnosticsherbet]

13. Steve Collorton "Associate independent counsel, Whitewater investigation, 1995-1996"

Associate independent counsel, Whitewater investigation, 1995-1996

Steven Colloton: If Republicans Get Their Wish On The Supreme Court, What Would Trump Or Cruz Do?
Steven Colloton

The third name on Heritage’s list of possible Supreme Court nominees is Judge Steven Colloton, who was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, after previous service for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr and as a U.S. attorney.

Colloton has been at the forefront of a number of troubling Eighth Circuit rulings, including writing decisions that reversed an $8.1 million award to whistleblowers who helped bring a defective pricing and kickback claim against a large corporation and a nearly $19 million class action judgment against Tyson Foods for violating the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. He also joined a ruling making the Eighth Circuit the only appellate court in the country that found that the Obama administration’s efforts to accommodate religious universities and other religious nonprofit objectors to the provision of contraceptive coverage under the ACA was insufficient, an issue now being considered by the Supreme Court.

Even more troubling, Colloton has dissented from a number of Eighth Circuit rulings that have upheld the rights of employees, consumers and others against big business and government agencies. He dissented from a decision giving African-American shoppers the opportunity to prove discrimination claims against a large department store, and then saw his view prevail by one vote when the full Eighth Circuit reheard the case. In another case, he dissented from a decision finding that a city had violated the Voting Rights Act by improperly diluting the voting strength of Native Americans.

Colloton dissented from rulings that gave individuals a chance to prove claims of use of excessive force and, in one case, that a city’s policy to use police dogs to bite and hold suspects without any warning was unconstitutional. In three separate cases, he dissented from decisions that employees should at least get the chance to prove in court that their employers retaliated against them for filing sex harassment, age discrimination, or other discrimination claims. In two more decisions, he argued in dissent that public employees should not have the opportunity to prove that they were retaliated against for speaking out in violation of their First Amendment rights. Yet he also claimed in a dissent that the First Amendment rights of a candidate for state supreme court justice were violated by a state judicial code of conduct restricting solicitation and other campaign activity in order to promote judicial impartiality and ethical conduct by judges. Even the conservative Roberts Court that decided the Citizens United case has agreed that these concerns justify solicitation restrictions in state supreme court elections.

Anti women's rights, pro-corporate rights, Stevve Collorton would be another Scallia.

[LiberalLovinLug]

14. .....

[47of74]

17. In other words the reincarnations of

... Franz Gürtner, Otto Georg Thierack, Roland Freisler, Josef Altstötter, Vasiliy Ulrikh, Antonin Scalia, Robert Bork, Andrey Vyshinsky, Stephen Johnson Field, Roger Taney, and James Clark McReynolds.

[Javaman]

18. what no cruz? I'm shocked! LOL

Trump Asked About Giving Cruz Supreme Court Nomination. Here's His Response.

Some have suggested that Donald Trump could go a long way in healing the divide in the Republican Party by agreeing to nominate Ted Cruz to the Supreme Court. When asked by the Daily Mail about the move on Monday, Trump wouldn't give a hard answer, but clearly signaled he wasn't a big fan of the idea. The reason: Cruz's "tough temperament."

Trump has announced that he will be providing a list of a dozen or more potential Supreme Court judges to replace deceased Justice Antonin Scalia, names he's turned to the Heritage Foundation for help in selecting. With Trump getting closer to locking up his presidential bid, some have offered Cruz as a wise and potentially unifying selection. Trump is clearly not convinced.

"I don't know, I'd have to think about it," Trump said when asked about choosing Cruz.

http://www.dailywire.com/news/5395/trump-asked-about-giving-cruz-supreme-court-james-barrett

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I guess he didn't think long about it. LOL

[MosheFeingold]

24. I'm actually surprised

If Donnie was half the politician he's been proclaimed to be, Cruz would have been the only person on his list.

[jwirr]

19. Do we know anything about any of them?

[jmowreader]

23. Well, they make Antonin Scalia look like a granola-fueled hippie

All of them are extremely conservative - if one got on the Supreme Court he or she would immediately be the Court's most conservative member...considering the competition, that takes some doing.

[BiminiTwisted]

20. One of Donald Trump's Supreme Court picks has mocked him on Twitter

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trailguide-05182016-one-of-donald-trumps-supreme-court-picks-has-mock-1463599167-htmlstory.html

[secondwind]

21. I'm betting he never even heard of any of these people

[yeoman6987]

27. Lol. True. I can't believe trump is bowing down to the conservatives on the

No trump train. This is hilarious.

[TomCADem]

25. Shoot, why not directly elect Supreme Court justices at this point?

nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

26. He's not going to be president so he won't be able to pick them

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. It would be funny to see how a Trump nomination of Willett played out

Another pick is Don Willett, a justice on the Texas Supreme Court perhaps best known outside his state for his Twitter account, @justicewillett. Willett has openly mocked Trump to his more than 35,000 followers, including on Aug. 27, when he wrote, "Can't wait till Trump rips off his face Mission Impossible-style & reveals a laughing Ruth Bader Ginsburg."

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/05/don-willett-donald-trump-tweets