by Katelynn Richardson
Although former President Donald Trump has not yet released an updated list of potential Supreme Court nominees, conservatives are hopeful that a second term will produce more originalist justices.
Trump’s nominations to the Supreme Court and lower courts are often considered his greatest achievement. achievement as president. He has promised repeatedly to release a new list of possible nominees before the election, but the names to be included remain uncertain, although many in the conservative legal world believe his nominees to the federal appeals courts are among the likely candidates.
“President Trump has said that, outside of issues of war and peace, nominating a Supreme Court justice is the most important decision an American president can make,” Trump campaign senior adviser Brian Hughes told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “As president, he appointed constitutional justices who interpret the law as it is written, and he will do so again when voters send him back to the White House.”
Asset he said CBS News political correspondent Caitlin Huey-Burns said Monday she would release a shortlist “in the next three or four weeks.” He also he said In March, he wrote in The Washington Times that he intended to release a new list, adding that his then-opponent, President Joe Biden, “should do the same.”
“I’m going to put together a list of judges — great judges — a list of about 20 people. I think it’s important to reveal who the Supreme Court justices are going to be,” Trump said in March. “There are people who say the list helped me win the election last time.”
Trump released the first list of 11 potential candidates in May 2016 who were supposed to represent the kind of judge he would choose to replace Justice Antonin Scalia after his death, an unprecedented move that has gained him greater confidence among conservative voters. He chose Justice Neil Gorsuch from his expanded list published in September 2016, which included ten additional names.
Trump posted another list in November 2017, including Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. He also issued a new list in September 2020, shortly before death Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Utah Republican Senator Mike Lee and Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley, who both made it onto Trump’s 2020 ticket, he said In July, the Dispatch newspaper reported that it was unclear who might be on the new list.
“Many of Trump’s nominees to the lower courts have demonstrated courage and commitment to the Constitution as it was written. I hope the next president will select someone of similar character,” JCN President Carrie Severino told DCNF.
Article III Project President Mike Davis told the DCNF that Trump’s “greatest and most important accomplishment in his first term was the transformation of the federal judiciary.”
“President Trump will build on his success in a second term by appointing even more bold and courageous judges,” Davis said. “One only needs to look at his nominations to the critically important appellate courts to see the likely nominees for the Supreme Court.”
Trump’s appointees to the appellate courts include Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle DuncanFifth District Judge James DownEighth District Judge David StrasFifth District Judge Don WillettEleventh Circuit Judge Barbara Lagoa and District of Columbia District Judge Gregory Lookwere also on his earlier lists.
Before Gorsuch’s election, Trump personally conducted interview three other candidates, including Third District Judge Thomas Hardiman, Eleventh District Judge William Pryor and then-Eastern District Judge Amul Thaparwhom Trump appointed as a judge on the Sixth Circuit.
John Malcolm, vice president of the Heritage Foundation’s Institute for Constitutional Government, told the DCNF there are many people who could make “outstanding judges,” pointing to Thapar, Ho, Stras, Katsas and Lagoa as a few who came to mind.
Malcolm also noted two other incidents from Trump’s past life listsformer Attorneys General Paul Clement and Noel Francisco, along with Fifth Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham, District of Columbia Judge Neomi Rao, Third Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, Eleventh Circuit Judge Elizabeth Branch, Sixth Circuit Judge Raymond Kethledge and Ninth Circuit Judge Patrick Bumatay.
Gracious since 2000, he has argued more cases before the Supreme Court than any other lawyer, including the recent Loper Bright thing what led to the judges overturning Kudos to Chevron in June.
Down and the squad were among a group of federal judges who announced in May that they would not hire any officials from Columbia University, which they called an “incubator of bigotry,” because of the institution’s handling of pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Both judges also he said Last year, they refused to hire Stanford Law officials after students attacked Duncan during a speech at the school’s Federalist Society chapter.
Asset attached five recommendations from Malcolm’s list compiled on his initial list of eleven potential candidates in 2016.
“If Trump is re-elected, he could secure a solid conservative majority on the Supreme Court for the next 15 or 20 years,” said Ed Whelan, the Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Center for Ethics and Public Policy, excellent in National Review in July. “An election that brings him victory would likely give Republicans control of the Senate.”
Whelan wrote that Trump could “build an excellent list from the dozens of federal appeals court judges he has appointed” and suggested adding Francisco to the list.
“Beyond his stellar qualifications, Francisco would be one of several attractive candidates for the position of chief justice of Asian American descent,” he wrote.
Vice President Kamala Harris has not said who she will appoint to the court. But she has extensive records from her time in the Senate and as California attorney general that reflect her views on the Constitution.
In the Senate she used questions during nomination hearings to press nominees on their personal views on issues like climate change and abortion. As a California lawyer generalShe has consistently taken left-wing positions in the documents she has created and signed, including on affirmative discrimination, religious freedom and LGBT issues.
President Joe Biden he said in June that the next president “will likely have two new Supreme Court nominees.” He said it was “one of the scariest” elements of a potential second term for Trump.
Biden proposed The Supreme Court reform in July included a constitutional amendment addressing a recent decision on presidential immunity, term limits and a code of conduct for judges.
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Katelynn Richardson is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
