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Trump meets with Supreme Court candidate
Associated Press ^ | Jan. 17, 2017 5:18 PM EST | Vivian Salama and Jonathan Lemire

Posted on 01/17/2017 2:44:54 PM PST by Olog-hai

President-elect Donald Trump has met with one of the judges on his short list for potential Supreme Court nominees, less than two weeks before he is expected to announce his choice for the nation’s highest court.

Judge William Pryor, an Alabama-based judge on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, met with Trump in New York on Saturday, said two people familiar with the meeting. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting had not been publicly announced. […]

The likely confirmation of Trump’s choice by a Republican-controlled Senate would restore a fifth vote for conservative outcomes in cases involving voting rights, the power of unions and in class-action lawsuits, lost with Scalia’s death. Trump also has said he wants an abortion opponent on the bench, although it would take a second Trump appointee to bring about dramatic change on that issue. …

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: pryor; supremecourt; trump; trumpscotus
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To: WildHighlander57

Trump oked the leak as a trial balloon.


21 posted on 01/17/2017 6:38:41 PM PST by Panhandle.deporable
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To: morphing libertarian
The Senate Judiciary Committee is planning to move forward with Sen. Jeff Sessions's (Ala.) attorney general nomination early next week.

Committee staffers announced on Tuesday that the committee will vote on Sessions's nomination to lead the Justice Department on Jan. 24. The move means that Sessions will not get a confirmation vote on "day one" of the Trump administration.

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22 posted on 01/17/2017 7:27:44 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Obama, Clinton, McStain, and Graham, with people like this, who needs enemies?)
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To: DoughtyOne

thanx


23 posted on 01/17/2017 8:43:41 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: morphing libertarian

“:^)


24 posted on 01/17/2017 8:47:05 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Obama, Clinton, McStain, and Graham, with people like this, who needs enemies?)
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To: DoughtyOne

was thinking just now, they needed more days for Lunch to destroy files or copy them.


25 posted on 01/17/2017 9:36:22 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: morphing libertarian

Wouldn’t surprise me.

Still the 24th isn’t that far off from the Inauguration.

Wow, our dreams are coming true.


26 posted on 01/17/2017 9:40:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Obama, Clinton, McStain, and Graham, with people like this, who needs enemies?)
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To: Sparticus

Trump’s first choice will be someone who can be confirmed. Judge Roy Brown is not near the top of that list.

Pryor is, but Trump goes for big wins. He knows that once confirmed, a Supreme Court justice cannot be controlled (except for John Roberts on Obamacare). So Trump will pick someone only after vetting, which he has probably been doing without CIA/FBI involvement.


27 posted on 01/17/2017 9:40:35 PM PST by bIlluminati (Balance the budget. Defund the Left!)
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To: morphing libertarian

I read that first time as secessions. Hoping for a Charles Sessions (as C. Sessions).


28 posted on 01/17/2017 9:43:01 PM PST by bIlluminati (Balance the budget. Defund the Left!)
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To: bIlluminati

I ignore a lot of auto texts and my stuff is crap with it’s choice of words/


29 posted on 01/17/2017 9:49:27 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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