If you think a Justice Kavanaugh is bad, consider Justice Cotton, Justice Cruz, or Justice Hawley
Imagine Supreme Court Justice Tom Cotton. Yikes. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images As he promised to do when hard-core conservatives grew restive over a heretical Supreme Court decision authored by Neil Gorsuch and John Roberts , the president has added 20 right-wing legal beagles to his preexisting list of 25 prospects for the next Trump Supreme Court nomination.
Hawley’s Senate colleagues and fellow-conservative-wild-men Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton were also on the list, making it pretty clear Trump is willing to do whatever the right wing of his party wants in the way of a conservative counter-revolution on the Court. Cotton, in particular, is an eye-raising prospect, given the contempt for the rule of law he expressed in encouraging Trump to send troops into American cities to suppress racial justice protests.
Trump also named another pol, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a Black Republican who made an impressive appearance at the RNC, to his list. But most of his added jurists are either Trump administration alums or Federalist Society members who Trump already placed in lower court positions.
The new SCOTUS hopefuls join such luminaries as Amy Coney Barrett, another gold-plated cultural conservative who is the front-runner for the next SCOTUS opening, particularly if it’s the seat currently held by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In announcing his augmented list Trump challenged Biden to do the same.
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