TRUMP READY TO DROP THE BOMB | GORSUCH ON TOP
January 27, 2017
CAN'T YOU JUST GIVE US A HINT
|T-minus six days before we’re supposed to learn who PRESIDENT TRUMP wants to fill the vacant seat on the Supreme Court. T-god VICE PRESIDENT PENCE is giving us a little clue of who it might be. Pence told Republican lawmakers yesterday, “I can already tip you off: President Trump’s going to keep his promise to the American people and he’s going to nominate a strict constructionist to the Supreme Court.” Earth shattering news, people.
DROP THE GAME
|Yesterday, PRESIDENT TRUMP came out in support of Senate Republicans deploying the “nuclear option” — changing Senate rules on a majority vote required to confirm a SCOTUS nominee — if Democrats block his Supreme Court pick.
CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME
|The final three on TRUMP’S list of Supreme Court nominees are all swimming in cash money. Tony Mauro and Marcia Coyle with The National Law Journal report the three front-runners — judges WILLIAM PRYOR, NEIL GORSUCH, and THOMAS HARDIMAN — are all valued at more than $1 million. Their report provides a rundown of what their 2015 financial filings reveal.
ED BOARD OVERTURE
|The Editorial Board of The Denver Post wants TRUMP to put NEIL GORSUCH on the Supreme Court. “Gorsuch, at 49, will have years to whittle away at that damaging lack of trust. A July 2016 Gallup Poll found that 52 percent of Americans disapproved of the way the Supreme Court handled its job. The finding is striking, considering the same poll in 2000 found only 29 percent of Americans disapproved. We could do far worse than a thoughtful graduate from Columbia, Harvard and Oxford universities, who clerked for two Supreme Court justices and calls Denver home.”
SO TELL ME ABOUT YOU
|Tony Mauro with The National Law Journal delivers three things we need to know about NEIL GORSUCH, the supposed front-runner to be our newest Supreme Court justice. First and foremost, Mauro points out that Judge Gorsuch isn’t a fan of class actions, and apparently, he isn’t big on agency deference either.
NERD OUT, FRIENDS
|“Fans have fantasy sports, Supreme Court nerds have FantasySCOTUS” — the words of USA Today’s Richard Wolf calling all of us out for being the nerds that we are. He reports that the “FantasySCOTUS” website correctly predicted ELENA KAGAN would make her way to the high court, and right now the survey says NEIL GORSUCH could be next up.