Bloomberg Law
Nov. 16, 2016, 8:48 PM UTC

Confirmed: Trump Will Pick From SCOTUS List

Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson

President-elect Donald Trump will choose the next nominee for U.S. Supreme Court justice from the lists of 21 candidates released earlier this year by his campaign, Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager said on Wednesday.

“You’ve seen the list of 21. The list has not changed,” she said.

There had been some question that Trump may renege on his promise to pick from the list of conservative jurists and lawmakers after the list was temporarily removed from his campaign website.

He didn’t discuss the timing specifically,” Leonard Leo of the conservative Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies said of ...

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