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During the campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump released a list of 21 potential Supreme Court nominees that was met with reaction from conservatives ranging from general approval to ecstasy depending on who you defined as a “conservative.” Until Donald Trump won the election and President Trump made it clear he intended to move expeditiously on nominating a replacement for the great Antonin Scalia cultural conservatives were content to take the word of Supreme Court the Federalist Society and others in the legal profession that all the potential nominees were “conservatives.” However, when President Trump said that he planned to forward a...

A third disputed Bush judicial nominee confirmed By Thomas Ferraro Reuters Thursday, June 9, 2005; 5:24 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The final one of President Bush's three most contentious judicial nominees won Senate confirmation on Thursday under a bipartisan deal designed largely to prepare for his first nomination to the Supreme Court. On a largely party-line vote of 53-45, the Republican-led Senate approved former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor for a lifetime seat on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Bush last year put Pryor on the Atlanta-based court with a disputed recess appointment set to expire at the...