Every post published in January 2017, most recent first.
In The New York Times, Peter Baker reports on President Donald Trump’s decision to move up his announcement of a Supreme Court nominee to tonight at 8 p.m., noting that some “Senate Democrats, still angry that Republicans prevented Mr. Obama from filling the seat, said they might filibuster Mr.
At the Associated Press, Julie Pace reports that “President Donald Trump could announce his pick for the Supreme Court as early as Monday,” and that although “Trump originally said the announcement would come on Thursday,” “word of a possible earlier announcement came as the White House dealt with
Judge Neil Gorsuch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit was “taking a breather” in the middle of a ski run when he heard that Justice Antonin Scalia had died. In a speech last April, Gorsuch added that he was “not embarrassed to admit” he cried his way down the mountain.
In May of 2016, when then-candidate Donald Trump was putting the Supreme Court front and center in his presidential campaign, he released a “much-anticipated list of people he would consider as potential replacements for Justice Scalia at the United States Supreme Court.” On this initial list of 11
Once it became apparent that President Donald Trump would be nominating a justice to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s long-vacant seat on the Supreme Court, Judge William H. Pryor Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit was widely considered to be the front-runner for the nomination.
The justices are now in recess. The justices will meet next for their February 17 conference. The calendar for the February sitting, which will begin on Tuesday, February 21, is available on the court’s website.
In Forbes, Daniel Fisher remarks that the possible nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch, a reported frontrunner for the vacant seat on the Supreme Court, “would be good news for libertarians and bad news for members of Congress who like to hand broad powers to administrative agencies to make
John Elwood reviews Monday’s (suspected) relists There is nothing like a presidential transition, particularly between presidents of opposing (I almost said “different”!) parties.
At Bloomberg, Greg Stohr reports that “the president is a week away from nominating someone who would become a core member of the court’s conservative wing,” and that each of “four appellate judges in contention for the slot, including frontrunners Neil Gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman, would fit neatly
At Fox News, Bill Mears reports that after meeting with Senate leaders yesterday to discuss the Supreme Court vacancy, President Donald Trump said he would announce his choice next week, and that “the list of possible candidates is now down to three names, all of them federal appeals court judges: