Trump Meets With Leading Supreme Court Contender

[livingston]

Trump Meets With Leading Supreme Court Contender
President-elect Donald Trump met with Judge William Pryor of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a lead contender for his first appointment to the Supreme Court, at Trump Tower late Saturday.

Above the Law’s David Lat broke news of the Pryor meeting
Trump told reporters Wednesday that he expects to name a nominee to the high court in late January, during the second week of his administration. He also confirmed he has met with a number of candidates from the list of potential nominees he released during the campaign. Given that timeframe, and the fact Pryor is widely considered a frontrunner for the appointment, the Saturday meeting suggests Trump is in the final stages of the selection process.

Pryor’s strident conservatism made his appointment to the bench by President George W. Bush a years-long battle.
Trump Meets With Leading Supreme Court Contender



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/15/trump-meets-with-a-leading-supreme-court-contender/#ixzz4Vsd1RCJY
.



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/15/trump-meets-with-a-leading-supreme-court-contender/#ixzz4VscOjPj9

 

[livingston]

Potential nominee profile: William Pryor (Expanded) - SCOTUSblog
Potential nominee profile: William Pryor (Expanded)
Judge William H. Pryor Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit is widely considered, along with Judge Diane Sykes, to be the front-runner to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia. President-elect Donald Trump mentioned both judges by name during a primary debate shortly after Scalia’s death, and both have the conservative bona fides necessary to allay concerns about, as Pryor himself has put it, adding “more Souters” to the court.

 

[4excal]

Knowing nothing about this kinda shit, and being so damn lazy to open a second window to Google and leave my NYGF window, are these good Scrotums picks for our kinda peeps?

 

[livingston]

Second Amendment
While he was attorney general, Pryor opposed lawsuits filed by gun-violence victims and city governments against gun companies, The Trace reported. The National Rifle Association in 2001 gave Pryor its highest tribute, the Harlon B. Carter Legislative Achievement Award.


What the Right Is Saying
Trump frequently mentioned and praised Pryor on the campaign trail. During a GOP primary debate in February, for example, he mentioned Pryor by name. Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, says Pryor would be near the top of potential Supreme Court appointments. “He’s principled. He’s someone who has a demonstrated record of the willingness to apply the Constitution, as opposed to rewriting it,” he tells Newsweek. He adds that Pryor generally would be “a slam-dunk nomination,” while acknowledging there are bruised feelings among some conservatives for his dealings with Moore and the Ten Commandments monument when he served as Alabama attorney general.

What the Left Is Saying
“In a lot of ways, Bill Pryor is the dream candidate of the far right. But he’d be a disaster for everyone else,” says Marge Baker, executive vice president of People for the American Way—a liberal organization. She says he would allow states to restrict voting rights, criminalize homosexuality, ban abortion and exempt themselves from federal civil rights laws. “The fact that he called Roe v. Wade the worst constitutional abomination in our history—worse than Dred Scott, which upheld slavery—shows just how ideologically driven he’d be as a Supreme Court justice.”

Who is William “Bill” Pryor, one of Trump’s possible Supreme Court nominees?