Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy on Monday released a list of potential conservative Supreme Court nominees, borrowing a page out of former President Donald Trump's playbook.
Ramaswamy, 37, released a list of contenders including Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee as possible nominees for the nation's highest court, as well as naming federal judges who struck down President Joe Biden's airplane mask mandate and the Food and Drug Administration's 20-year-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone.The decision to release a list of potential nominees mirrors Trump's 2016 move where he released his own list of possible appointments to galvanize his base.
The venture capitalist and political outsider candidate has been polling fourth among potential Republican primary voters, according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls. Ramaswamy's move comes after the high court and its 6-3 Republican-appointed majority in 2022 overturned Roe v. Wade, which was a top priority for the anti-abortion conservatives.
Ramaswamy also named seven federal judges, including U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit Judge James Ho, 9th Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke, 11th Circuit Judge Lisa Branch, and U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, with the latter recently ruling against the FDA's decades-old approval of mifepristone earlier this year.
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