Posted on 03/11/2016 5:42:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The White House has narrowed its search for a Supreme Court nominee to three federal appeals court judges, Sri Srinivasan, Merrick Garland and Paul Watford, a source familiar with the selection process said on Friday.
Srinivasan and Garland are considered the leading contenders, according to the source and two other sources close to the process.
President Barack Obama is seeking a nominee to replace long-serving conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, who died on Feb. 13. Senate Republicans have vowed not to hold confirmation hearings or an up-or-down vote on any Supreme Court nominee put forward by Obama.
The process to select a replacement for Scalia appears to be nearing an end. It was unclear whether the other two other candidates who had been expected to be interviewed by Obama, federal appeals court judge Jane Kelly and federal trial judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, were now out of the running altogether.
Srinivasan, 49, and Garland, 63, are colleagues on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Srinivasan, who was born in India and grew up in Kansas, would be the first Asian-American and the first Hindu on the high court. Obama appointed him to the appeals court in 2013.
Garland is the chief judge of that appeals court, where he has served since being appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997.
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Nothing wrong with saying your sorry.
For the life of me I can’t understand why anyone who doesn’t get the eic or make a living herding those who get the eic would ever vote for the left.
I don’t know but in the SCOTUS it would be a split decision I’m sure.
Hey hey. I’m part native and don’t get or want anything. You might be confusing those from India with Cherokees? Also many,many Americans with long family history in the US have native dna.
Screw him. And them.
3. 30. 300. None of them should see the Senate floor.
I would expect Angela Davis, cris rock, and JZ.
Mullah obama won't get anymore appointments. Especially not these three and especially no more queer lesbians.
I’m very disappointed that it’s not me.
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It is a weird idea given that Sri is American - even if a lib. Ted Cruz who was born outside the U.S. serves as a Senator. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen & Mario Diaz Balart were born in Cuba but are/were in Congress. I guess they are more American than Sri?
DC Court of Appeals.
Go figure.
Do they have anything in common with the names of pagan gods?
Pound sand there little man
Two words: Orren Hatch. Obama could recommend a rhesus monkey and Hatch would go along.
White Anglo Saxon Protestants go unrepresented on Supreme Court while Obama picks a Hindu from India. The Dems & puppet string pullers have an agenda of making newcomers an overclass and legacy Americans an underclass.
Apparently so because the left and the media have purposely used such exclusionary tactics to divide us, instead of uniting us.
Teds mother was a US citizen which made Ted a US citizen at birth.
Who would be the most divisive for the nation? That’s who he’ll pick.
Yet they supported Obama by nearly 70%. So, nice try, but those four people that formed that group prove nothing.
Nice try of what?
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