The WH is preparing for an earlier announcement of @realDonaldTrump's pick for Supreme Court

[oberliner]

Source: ABC News: Jonathan Karl (via Twitter)

Jonathan Karl ?@jonkarl 1h1 hour ago
WH SOURCE: The WH is preparing for an earlier announcement of @realDonaldTrump's pick for Supreme Court - likely Tues, possibly tomorrow

Jonathan Karl ?@jonkarl 1h1 hour ago
Senior administration official tells me @realDonaldTrump's SCOTUS short list is down Neil Gorsuch & Thomas Hardiman.


Read more: https://twitter.com/jonkarl

[rzemanfl]

1. Federal Courthouses next Saturday? n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Trying to change the subject

This is where the protests really begin

Bring. It. On.

[oberliner]

4. My thoughts exactly

Makes sense, strategy-wise.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Sense? Or Desperation?

This battle for legitimacy and the rule of law is going to be won or lost early,
and our country is on the line.

[calimary]

17. BINGO!

A new "shiny object" to distract everybody's attention.

[anneboleyn]

22. Exactly. It is transparently Bannon 101 "politics." Distract, distract, distract. Pres. Bannon

wants the press and public to focus on a "beautiful" SCOTUS nominee. Such transparent bullshit.

[fountainofyouth]

3. I hate to say it, but smart move

It gives his supporters something to mobilize for, instead of just our side being vocal and dominating the news.

[sarah FAILIN]

6. It will be bad.

Payback from Comrade Trump is a bitch.

[TomCADem]

14. It Has To Be A RW Christian Extremist...

...in order to get the religious right joined at the hip with Trump.

[Hawaii Hiker]

7. A Supreme Court pick that was taken from President Obama

could you imagine if it was role reversal...Mitt Romney was POTUS, Democrats controlled the senate, Scalia dies and Majority Leader Reid says to Romney, you're not filling the seat.....Repubs would have engaged in armed insurrection....Repubs have always had a sense of entitlement when it comes to filing judicial vacancies...

[calimary]

18. And THAT, right there, is the World's Biggest Entitlement Program.

The GOP's assumption that it alone has some "divine" right to rule.

[JudyM]

19. Dead-on, Calimary.

[Chasstev365]

8. I'm sure they go with a compromise pick like Justice William Pryor!

[oberliner]

9. My money is on Neil Gorsuch

Red meat for the Christian RW base.

[TrekLuver]

23. They are going to pick this guy...just you watch it's going to be the one who is the staunch

opposition to Roe v. Wade.

[drray23]

10. I certainly hope

That after this clusterfuck and the cbp ignoring the federal judge stay , the dem senators block that supreme court nomination indefinitely.

[Princess Turandot]

11. After being slapped down by the federal judiciary this weekend, he needs an adulation booster...

that was part of the reason he started cranking out his EOs last week after his tepid treatment on inauguration day.

[ramapo]

12. We'll soon see if Democrats in the Senate have a spine

They better exercise it and demand a moderate, else no vote.

[MFM008]

13. Schumer said no go

No one.
Period.
Or he needs a primary opponent.

[Cryptoad]

15. Heard little from the Democratic leadership,,,

abt leaving the court at 8 no matter who he nominates......If Trump gets a justice pick on teh court , game over!

[Corey_Baker08]

21. Unfortunately He"s Bound To Get At Least 2 The Next 4 Years...

And that is one of the things that we should be scared of hell of...3 picks keep me 🆙 at night....

[C_U_L8R]

16. A desperate move

And pretty transparent

[TrollBuster9090]

20. Ages 49 and 51, which means...

they'd be on the bench, f@#king up the Supreme Court with reactionary decisions until 2050.

I hope all those a-holes who voted for Jill Stein are happy.

[meadowlander]

24. More outrageous bullshit than you can shake a news cycle at.