\u00a0<\/span>post Monday morning Trump said he \u201cmade my decision on who I will nominate\u201d for the seat, which has stayed open for nearly a year following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016.<\/p>\nThe announcement will come at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Trump said.<\/p>\n
Following Scalia\u2019s death, congressional Republicans successfully prevented Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama\u2019s pick to fill the seat, from ascending to the high court by refusing to hold a vote or even a hearing on his nomination.<\/p>\n
Trump is said to have narrowed his choice to Judge Thomas Hardiman, of the U.S.\u00a0Court of Appeals for the Third\u00a0Circuit; Judge Neil , of the 10th Circuit; and Judge William Pryor, of the 11th U.S. Circuit.<\/p>\n
As of Monday morning, \u00a0Hardiman and Gorsuch are seen as the frontrunners in the SCOTUS stakes.<\/p>\n
Hardiman, a 51-year-old Bush appointee, would be the only Supreme Court justice not educated at an Ivy League law school, having put himself through Georgetown by driving a taxi.<\/p>\n
While on the bench, Hardiman dissented from a majority opinion that preserved a New Jersey law that required people to show a \u201cjustifiable need\u201d to receive a public-carry permit. His dissent relied heavily on Scalia\u2019s pro-gun rights opinion in\u00a0<\/span>District of Columbia v. Heller.<\/em><\/p>\nPryor, 54, once called\u00a0<\/span>Roe v. Wade\u00a0<\/span><\/em>the \u201cworst abomination in the history of constitutional law,\u201d but could cause some fear among some Republicans for joining a majority opinion saying discriminating against transgender people violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.<\/p>\nAt 49, Gorsuch is the youngest among those being considered, and the Bush appointee recently sided with privately-held companies who claimed the contraceptive mandate in the federal health care law violated their religious beliefs.<\/p>\n
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has said he would keep Trump\u2019s nominee from taking the bench if the pick is \u201cnot bipartisan and mainstream,\u201d but told reporters last week he is not out to get revenge on Republicans for standing against Garland.<\/p>\n
\u201cClearly what they did with Garland was wrong, but we\u2019re not playing tit-for-tat here,\u201d Schumer told reporters last week. \u201cWe want a mainstream nominee because that\u2019s the right thing for America.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last week Trump met at the White House with Schumer, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sens. Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein, the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee respectively, to discuss the nominee.<\/p>\n
Trump had originally said the announcement would come on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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