Whom do you think The Donald will nominate to SCOTUS?

[The Rebel Poet]

Any bets?

 

[Jamesiv1]

A poll thread without a poll?

Perhaps we need a meeting to discuss?

 

[Contumacious]

Any bets?

Judge Neil Gorsuch .

 

[Jan2017]

Ted Cruz - LOL (from the fake news network shortlist)

CNN's Donald Trump Supreme Court nominee shortlist

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/06/politics/donald-trump-supreme-court-nominee-shortlist/

 

[CPUd]

They supposedly offered it to Ted and he turned it down.

 

[RonZeplin]

JAG lawyer Lindsey Graham, or "America's Mayor" Rudy Giuliani?

 

[William Tell]

Business Insider thinks Thomas Hardiman. Looks like he's for basically unlimited cop powers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardiman#Police_and_prison_powers

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Ron Paul.

 

[The Rebel Poet]

Ron Paul.

I said "think" not "wish."

 

[goldwater's ghost]

I WANT GORSUCH but think it will be Hardiman. Trump's sister wants Hardiman and I think Trump will listen to sister. hardiman is pro 2nd amendment but also super pro cop. he believes that citizens dont have the right to video tape cops. gorsuch is an originalist. he believes in state power over federal and is super pro religous rights

 

[Superfluous Man]

I expect it to be Hardiman.

The main reason is because Hardiman is very pro-cop. And that fits right in with Trump's law and order platform.

Hardiman ruled that we have no 1st Amendment right to video record police, and has also ruled that a policy of strip searching everyone who gets arrested is not unreasonable search and seizure.

He's also the least like Scalia of the three on Trump's shortlist, according to a metric that was cited on the Volokh Conspiracy.

Trump wants to satisfy the demands of conservatives, after promising to nominate someone in Scalia's mold. But he wants to do so just barely, and to get someone as little like Scalia as possible, while still making the cut.

 

[Superfluous Man]

Business Insider thinks Thomas Hardiman. Looks like he's for basically unlimited cop powers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardiman#Police_and_prison_powers

Exactly. And that's exactly what Trump wants more than anything else.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

I said "think" not "wish."

Kanye West

 

[UWDude]

I think trying to predict Trump's next move is a fool's errand.

 

[shakey1]

Is Judge Nap of the short list?

 

[RonPaulGeorge&Ringo]

Is Judge Nap of the short list?

Apparently Trump was strongly considering Nap; but ultimately decided to stick to the list of 12 (19?) judges he published during the campaign.

Maybe Nap can get in there next time after RBGinsburg dies.

 

[The Rebel Poet]

Kanye West

+rep

 

[CPUd]

Apparently Trump was strongly considering Nap; but ultimately decided to stick to the list of 12 (19?) judges he published during the campaign.

Maybe Nap can get in there next time after RBGinsburg dies.

Who said he was strongly considering Nap?

 

[William Tell]

Is Judge Nap of the short list?

He was never on any list. That was a lie circulated to get libertarian support.

 

[rprprs]

For what it's worth, FAUX is reporting that they are hearing from several "sources" that it is Gorsuch.