“The president wants to move without delay,” jonkarl says on Trump’s SCOTUS shortlist. “At his rally last night you actually saw Trump supporters chanting ‘fill that seat’ … the president seemed almost gleeful to have something else to talk about.”
Senate Republicans have an"obligation, without delay" to act on his nominee for the Supreme Court before November's presidential election.
Later, before departing the White House for a campaign rally in North Carolina, he told reporters that he will decide on a nominee by"next week," calling his shortlist"the greatest list ever assembled." The sources caution the process is still in its early stages and the president is expected to speak to those on the shortlist before making any announcement in the coming days.
"There is a clear choice on the future of the Supreme Court between the well-qualified and conservative jurist President Trump will nominate and I will support, and the liberal activist Joe Biden will nominate and Cal Cunningham will support, who will legislate radical, left wing policies from the bench," Tillis said in a statement.Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, celebrating her 20th anniversary on the bench, is photographed in the West conference room at the U.S.
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