The Trump Twenty (Updated)

Published September 23, 2016 10:30am ET



Donald Trump used his visit this week to the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland to speak further to the matter of judicial selection for the Supreme Court. Last May the candidate said he would name judicial conservatives to the Court, and he released a list of 11 such jurists, all of them either federal or state judges.

Trump did not say, however, that he would in fact pick from the list in filling Scalia’s seat or others that might come open during his presidency. Instead Trump said he planned to use the list “as a guide” for the kind of Justices, with respect to judicial philosophy, he’d nominate. Thus, Trump might pick as a nominee one of the judges on his list, but he also might choose someone not on the list but clearly an adherent of a conservative approach to judging.

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