President Trump met with four Supreme Court contenders at the White House on Monday, including one Indian-American and one woman

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President Donald Trump has met with four contenders for the Supreme Court nomination, including one woman and one Indian-American judge, and may be adding a second woman to his consideration list.

He met Monday with four federal appeals court judges: Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Amul Thapar and Raymond Kethledge, according to multiple media reports.

And there may be a fifth name on that list: Trump is expected to meet with Justice Joan Larsen of the 6th Circuit as early as Tuesday, ABC News reported.

The president also spoke on the phone Monday to Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah about the position.

'Yesterday, the President spoke on the phone with Sen. Mike Lee,' White House spokesman Raj Shah said in a statement on Tuesday.

The White House declined to say who all of the potential justices that Trump was meeting with this week were, including the two or three he said he'd be meeting with on Tuesday.

Lee and the other possibilities were all on the list of 25 names Trump was working off of to pick his next Supreme Court Justice.

The contenders all have strong conservative judicial records as Trump seeks to the move the Supreme Court to the right with his pick to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.

 

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Deeply religious judge Amy Coney Barrett is already under attack from Democrats while Amul Thapar, the son of Indian-American immigrants, was Trump's first nominee to an appeals court in 2017

 

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Brett Kavanaugh was originally appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush

 

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Justice Joan Larsen is said to be getting a meeting with Trump, perhaps as early as Tuesday while Thomas Hardiman of the Third Circuit is also said to be on the president's short list

 

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Coney Barrett is a favorite of religious conservatives. She is said to be a deeply religious Catholic and once argued that Catholic judges should sometimes recuse themselves from sentencing in death penalty cases because the church opposes it in all circumstances.


She is from New Orleans, born in 1972, graduated from Rhodes College and Notre Dame Law School. She has seven children.

The 46-year-old clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia in 1998 and served as a law professor at her alma mater, George Washington University and the University of Virginia.

She serves on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Indiana after being nominated by Trump last year, which means she was confirmed by the same Senate that will be voting on the Supreme Court pick.

Her faith become a flashpoint during her confirmation hearing, however. During her hearing, the Senate Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, Dianne Feinstein of California, told Barrett that 'the dogma lives loudly within you, and that's of concern.'

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, a Democrat from New York, has already attacked Barrett. On Twitter, Schumer argued she would support overturning Roe v. Wade.

'The bottom line: Judge Barrett has given every indication that she will be an activist judge on the Court,' Schumer wrote.

'If chosen as the nominee, she will be the deciding vote to overturn Roe v. Wade and to strike down pre-existing conditions protections in the ACA.'

 

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Amul Thapar, the son of Indian-American immigrants, was Trump's first nominee to an appeals court in 2017.
He's a former district court judge from Kentucky with a conservative track record and was among those Trump considered as a replacement for Scalia, who died in 2016.



His most well-known criminal case as a district-court judge was the October 2013 case of the United States vs. Walli, which involved three Christian pacifists and resulted in Thapar jailing an 84-year-old nun along with two others.


Sister Megan Rice and two others were charged with breaking into a federal nuclear plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and hanging banners, splattering blood and writing antiwar messages on the wall . After the defendants were convicted of sabotage and damaging federal property, Thapar sentenced two of them to five years in prison and Rice to a 35-month prison term.


Thapar is said to be the favorite of Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who is also from Kentucky.


He was the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky from 2006 to 2008 and was nominated to the 6th Circuit by George W. Bush in 2008.


The 49-year-old is an alumnus of Boston College and the University of California, Berkeley, law school.

 

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Brett Kavanaugh, an appointee of President George W. Bush, clerked at the Supreme Court for Kennedy.


He was also a prosecutor under independent counsel Kenneth Starr, who investigated President Bill Clinton.


The Yale-educated appellate court judge for the District of Columbia recently wrote a dissent when his colleagues allowed an immigrant teen in U.S. custody to have an abortion.


The 53-year-old was the the White House staff secretary under President George W. Bush from 2003 until 2006.


He is said to be a favorite of many Republican leaders.

 

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President Trump has meet with four contenders and said he will meet with two or three more

 

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Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer worries Barrett will overturn Roe v. Wade

 

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Trump is looking to shift the Supreme Court to the right with Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement

 

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Raymond Kethledge also clerked for Kennedy, and has the support of some conservative activists. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, he does not have the Harvard or Yale pedigree that Trump has told associates he would like to see in the next justice.


The 51-year-old was counsel to Republican Sen. Spencer Abraham of Michigan until 1997 and clerked for Kennedy the following year.


He was nominated to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by George W. Bush in 2006.

 

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Joan Larsen, a 49-year-old from Michigan, serves on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Before that, she was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan from 2015 until last year. She was nominated to the 6th Circuit by Trump in November 2017.


Thomas Hardiman of the Third Circuit is also said to be on the president's short list.


Hardiman, 52, went to the University of Notre Dame as the first person in his family to go to college. He financed his law degree at the Georgetown University Law Center by driving a taxi.


He became a federal district judge at 37 and was appointed to the 3rd Circuit in 2007. Hardiman has sided with jails seeking to strip-search inmates arrested for even minor offenses and has supported gun rights.


He dissented in a 2013 case that upheld a New Jersey law to strengthen requirements for carrying a handgun in public.


A Massachusetts native, Hardiman settled in Pittsburgh, where his wife comes from a family of prominent Democrats.


Trump's meetings with four of his contenders on Monday lasted roughly 45 minutes each, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at her press briefing Monday afternoon.
'He's looking for individuals that have the right intellect, the right temperament, and that will uphold the constitution,' Sanders said when asked what qualities the president sought.


The president said on Monday he'd be meeting with a few other judges.


'I'll be meeting two or three more and we'll make a decision on the United States Supreme Court, the new justice,' he said.


Trump noted that all the judges he met with 'are outstanding people. They are really incredible people in so many different ways - academically, and every other way. And I had a very, very interesting morning.'

He added: 'I think the person that is chosen will be outstanding.'


Trump is expected to announce his pick on July 9, the day before he leaves on a trip to Brussels, London, Scotland and Helsinki.


The fast-pace of the nomination is designed to put a new justice on the bench by October - the start of the next term.
White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway on Tuesday dismissed critics who say that Trump is moving too fast, noting that he was working of a pre-established list of 25 potential high court judges.
'We're very happy with the way the process will unfold,' she said. 'I'd say that this is going at a Trump pace, not a swamp speed, in terms of he has promised that he will announce his selection next Monday, and then go and then go and make another historic foreign trip.'
White House counsel Donald McGahn is overseeing the confirmation process inside the White House.


Deputy White House press secretary Raj Shah will take temporary leave from his role to oversee full time communications, strategy and messaging coordination with Capitol Hill allies on the nominee.
Republicans, who hold a scant 51 majority in the Senate, are bracing for an election-year battle over whomever Trump chooses.


Democrats, looking to energize their base ahead of the midterms, have begun taking aim at members of the shortlist and see the Supreme Court opening as a chance to rally their voters.

 

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TRUMP'S LIST OF POSSIBLE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES

President Trump has promised to pick his next Supreme Court nominee from a list he updated in April 2017.

All but one is a current or former judge, and 15 of them are federal judges. The exception is Mike Lee, the Republican junior senator from Utah the exception.
The complete list is:

Amy Coney Barrett, 46, of Indiana. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Former law professor at the University of Notre Dame. Nominated to the Seventh Circuit by Donald Trump last year
Keith Blackwell, 42, of Georgia. Supreme Court of Georgia. Associate justice of the Georgia Supreme Court since June 2012.

Contenders: Charles Canady, Florida; Amy Coney Barrett, Indiana; Thomas Hardiman, Pennsylvania; and Britt Grant of Georgia are all on the president's list

Charles Canady, 64, of Florida. Supreme Court of Florida. Republican Congressman from 1992 to 2000, associate justice of Florida Supreme Court since 2008.

Steven Colloton, 55, of Iowa. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Associate in office of Ken Starr, the Bill Clinton special counsel. Nominated to the Eighth Circuit by George W. Bush in 2003

Allison Eid, 53, of Colorado. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Solicitor general of Colorado form 2006 to 2006, then associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court until Novfember 2017. Nominated by Donald Trump to the Tenth Circuit in 2017, succeeding Neil Gorsuch's seat

Contenders: Brett Kavanuagh, Maryland; Allison Eid, Colorado; Raymond Kethledge, Michigan; and Joan Larsen, Michigan, are all on the president's list

Britt Grant, 40, of Georgia. Supreme Court of Georgia. Solicitor general of Georgia from 2015 to 2017, associate justice of the Georgia Supreme Court from January 2017. Currently waiting for Senate vote on nomination by Donald Trump to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Raymond Gruender, 54, of Missouri. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. U.S. Attorney for Eastern District of Missouri, 2001-2004. Nominated to the Eighth Circuit by George W. Bush in 2004

Thomas Hardiman, 53, of Pennsylvania. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Nominated to the federal bench for the Western District of Pennsylvania by George W. Bush in 2003. Nominated by Bush to the Third Circuit in 2007

Contenders: Edward Mansfield, Iowa; Mike Lee, Utah; Thomas Lee, Utah (Mike Lee's brother); and Federico Moreno, Florida, are all on President Trump's list

Brett Kavanaugh, 53, of Maryland. U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. White House staff secretary to George W. Bush from 2003 until 2006. Nominated by Bush to the D.C. Circuit in 2006

Raymond Kethledge, 51, of Michigan. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Private practice 1998 to 2008. First nominated to Sixth Circuit by George W. Bush in 2006. Nominated again in 2008

Joan Larsen of Michigan, 49, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Associate justice of the Michigan Supreme Court 2015 - 2017. Nominated to the Sixth Circuit by Donald Trump in November 2017.

Mike Lee of Utah, 47. United States Senator. Private practice 2007-2010. Junior senator from Utah since 2001. Brother of Thomas Lee (below).

Contenders: Diane Sykes, Wisconsin; William Pryor, Alabama; Kevin Newsom, Alabama; and David Stras, Minnesota, are all on President Trump's list

Thomas Lee of Utah, 53. Supreme Court of Utah. Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the George W. Bush administration 2004-2005. Nominated to the Utah Supreme Court 2010. Brother of Mike Lee (above).

Edward Mansfield, 61, of Iowa. Supreme Court of Iowa. Iowa Court of Appeals 2009-2011. Associate Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court since 2011

Federico Moreno, 66, of Florida. U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Nominated to the federal bench in 1990 by George H.W. Bush. Nominated to the Eleventh Circuit in 1992 by Bush but Senate did not hold vote before Bush lost

Contenders: Amul Thapar, Kentucky; Timothy Tymkovich, Colorado; Keith Blackwell, Georgia; and Steven Colloton, Iowa, are all on President Trump's list

Kevin Newsom, 45, of Alabama. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Solicitor general of Alabama 2003-2007. Nominated to the Eleventh Circuit by Donald Trump in 2017

William Pryor, 56, of Alabama. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Attorney general of Alabama 1997 to 2004. Nominated to the Eleventh Circuit by George W. Bush, 2004. Chairman of the U.S. Sentencing Commission since 2017

Margaret Ryan, 54, of Virginia. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. judge Advocate, U.S. Marine Corps, 1995-1999. Nominated to the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces by George W. Bush 2006. (Not photographed)

David Stras, 43, of Minnesota. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, 2010-2018. Nominated to the Eight Circuit by Donald Trump, 2018

Contenders: Raymond Gruender, Missouri; Robert Young, Michigan; Don Willett, Texas; and Patrick Wyrick, Oklahoma, are all on President Trump's list

Diane Sykes, 60, of Wisconsin. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Associated justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, 1990-2004. Nominated to the Seventh Circuit by George W. Bush, 2004

Amul Thapar, 49, of Kentucky. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky 2006-2008. Nominated to the Sixth Circuit by George W. Bush 2008.

Timothy Tymkovich, 61, of Colorado. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Solicitor general of Colorado 1991-1996. Nominated to the Tenth Circuit by George W. Bush, 2003
Robert Young, 67, of Michigan. Supreme Court of Michigan (retired). Michigan court of appeals judge 1995-1998. Associate justice then chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court 1998-2017

Don Willett, 51, of Texas. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court, 2005-2018. Nominated to the Fifth Circuit by Donald Trump, 2018
Patrick Wyrick, 37, of Oklahoma. Supreme Court of Oklahoma. Solicitor General of Oklahoma, 2011-2017. Associate justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court since 2017. Nominated to the federal bench for the Western District of Oklahoma in 2018 by Donald Trump and awaiting Senate vote

 

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The judge pick and the Putin meeting will be crazy days.

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Happy Fourth of July everyone! Let's keep Making America Great Again! Love this President. He'll make the RIGHT decision!

 

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The judge pick and the Putin meeting will be crazy days.

Can't wait

It's getting better every day. So much winning.

 

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But, how long till the die hard, low IQ liberals in here start posting stories from the biased sources claiming the "Cards" they pull randomly out of the deck.

Race Card
Islamaphobia card
Homophobia card
Sexist card
Nazi card
Religion card
Or whatever card they make up or use as the "Card of the day" they are told to use by their masters.

 

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Democratic Senate Leader Chuck Schumer worries Barrett will overturn Roe v. Wade

Trump could nominate Jesus Christ and Schumer would vote NO.