President Trump challenged Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to release a list of potential Supreme Court picks, warning they would be “revolutionary.”
During an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, the president warned that the candidates Biden would consider for the high court would be “far, radical left judges” and said the reason Biden has not publicly identified potential nominees for the Supreme Court is because those who “control” him would not allow it.
“Joe has to come up now with a list — he should come up with a list, otherwise, people can’t vote for him. But the reason he possibly won’t is, because he’s going to come up with far, radical left judges. I mean, these will be people that are very, very far to the left, that are, you know, revolutionary, in a sense, I think. And he’s got to come up with them,” Trump said.
“I don’t know that they are going to allow because they control him totally. They control Joe Biden. He is not in control of himself. He is controlled by the radical Left, it is a very dangerous part of our society, and he is totally controlled, and he is not going to be able to name Democrat judges that are in the middle someplace, or normalized, you know, people that are, like, normal people,” the president continued. “He will be forced to pick extremely radical left judges, and I don’t think you can get elected if you do that.”
During a Wednesday press conference at the White House, Trump revealed an additional 20 potential nominees to a list he previously released during the 2016 presidential campaign. Among those added include 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Bridget Bade, Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, and Republican Sens. Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley, whom Trump described as being in the mold of conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and former Justice Antonin Scalia.
“Our cherished rights are at risk, including the right to life and our great Second Amendment. Over the next four years, America’s president will choose hundreds of federal judges and, in all likelihood, one, two, three, and even four Supreme Court justices,” Trump said. “The outcome of these decisions will determine whether we hold fast to our nation’s founding principles or whether they are lost forever.”
During the 2016 campaign, Trump announced a list of potential nominees for the high court in attempts to woo conservative voters who were skeptical of his ideological framework. Trump teased this list of Supreme Court nominees earlier this summer, noting at the time that the announcement would come by Sept. 1.
