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On Wednesday, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump\u00a0released<\/a> a list of eleven potential Supreme Court nominees he considers \u201crepresentative of the kind of constitutional principles I value.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has also promised<\/a>, \u201cI won\u2019t go beyond the list, and I\u2019m going to let people know. Because some people say maybe I\u2019ll appoint a liberal judge. I\u2019m not appointing a liberal judge.\u201dSo far, the consensus in pro-life and constitutionalist circles is positive. The Susan B. Anthony List calls<\/a> it \u201can exceptionally strong list of jurists with immense respect for our founding documents,\u201d and law professor and ex-Bush Administration attorney John Yoo says<\/a> it\u2019s a \u201cFederalist Society all-star list of conservative jurisprudence.\u201d (And hey, at least his radical pro-abortion sister<\/a> isn’t on the list.)<\/p>\n

On the other hand, conservative pro-life columnist Quin Hillyer says<\/a> while it\u2019s \u201ca very strong list,\u201d \u201cI trust this list as far as I can throw a rhinoceros.”\u00a0National Review\u2019s Dan McLaughlin also\u00a0dismisses it<\/a> as \u201cmostly cribbed from a prior Heritage Foundation list and from names fed to Trump by Hugh Hewitt in a radio interview\u201d and \u201cobviously is not the product of much due diligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

But what about the names? All eleven are listed below, along with whatever specific information we can dig up about their pro-life credentials and constitutional philosophy.<\/p>\n

8th<\/sup> Circuit Judge Steven Colloton<\/strong>\u2014A jurist who has ruled in favor<\/a> of informed-consent requirements for abortion and against<\/a> forcing employers to cover contraceptives.<\/p>\n

Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison Eid<\/strong>\u2014A former clerk<\/a> for the great pro-life Justice Clarence Thomas and speechwriter for Ronald Reagan\u2019s pro-life Education Secretary Bill Bennett, in 2013 Eid voted<\/a> to hear the appeal of an injunction against public displays of graphic abortion images (although voting to hear the case is not a vote on the case\u2019s merits, ruling the other way was a de facto vote to let the injunction stand).<\/p>\n

8th<\/sup> Circuit Judge Raymond Gruender<\/strong>\u2014Like Colloton, Gruender sided with pro-lifers on informed consent<\/a> and forced contraception coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3rd<\/sup> Circuit Judge Thomas Hardiman<\/strong>\u2014A jurist who has described<\/a> his judicial philosophy as follows: \u201cour role as judges is to interpret the law, not to inject our own policy preferences [\u2026] any good judge recognizes his or her place in our constitutional government, and that place is not to upset the will of the people as expressed through their elected representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n

6th<\/sup> Circuit Judge Raymond Kethledge<\/strong>\u2014A Judge who has described<\/a> his judicial philosophy as \u201cfollow[ing] Supreme Court precedent\u201d \u201cfirst and foremost\u201d (a potential problem<\/a> if it means excessive deference for bad precedent such as Roe v. Wade<\/em>), but also \u201cmak[ing] sure that the values that I would be enforcing if I were a judge are not just my values, that I am not striking something down simply because I don’t like it,\u201d and \u201cstart[ing] with the text. I would say that, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michigan Supreme Court Justice Joan Larsen<\/strong>\u2014A former clerk of pro-life hero Justice Antonin Scalia<\/a>, who called<\/a> her former boss \u201cone of the greatest legal minds of our era\u201d with \u201ca commitment to reading the law faithfully and applying the law as written.\u201d<\/p>\n

Utah Supreme Court Justice Thomas Lee<\/strong>\u2014The brother<\/a> of strong pro-life<\/a> Senator Mike Lee, Justice Lee ruled in 2011<\/a> that fetuses qualified as \u201cminor children\u201d under the state\u2019s wrongful death law.<\/p>\n

11th<\/sup> Circuit Judge William Pryor<\/strong>\u2014A name Trump has mentioned before, and a respected pro-life jurist who called<\/a> Roe v. Wade \u201cthe worst abomination in the history of constitutional law\u201d (a declaration with which many pro-abortion legal scholars agree<\/a>). A solid choice.<\/p>\n

Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras<\/strong>\u2014Another former Thomas clerk, in 2009 Stras criticized as unfair<\/a> Ted Kennedy\u2019s infamous declaration that \u201cRobert Bork\u2019s America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n

7th<\/sup> Circuit Judge Diane Sykes<\/strong>\u2014Another name Trump first floated months ago, who is disturbingly still in consideration despite striking down<\/a> Indiana\u2019s 2012 attempt to defund Planned Parenthood. Pro-lifers have pointed this out<\/a> repeatedly over the past several months, so it\u2019s not a good sign that neither Trump nor anyone else on his team was listening.<\/p>\n

Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett<\/strong>\u2014A judge who has said<\/a> a court\u2019s role is \u201cnot to aggrandize power or impose their own policy preferences,\u201d and that a \u201ccourt squanders that legitimacy when it stiff-arms the law to reach wished-for policy outcomes,\u201d because \u201claw isn\u2019t wet clay that a willful, activist judge can mold into whatever outcome he finds more fashionable, politically enticing, or ideologically satisfying.\u201d However, it turns out Willet\u2019s also a recurring Trump critic<\/a>, so pro-lifers probably shouldn\u2019t expect him to be nominated anyway.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s definitely an encouraging list, but real question is whether Trump would actually follow through and nominate these people. As Ramesh Ponnuru explains<\/a>, a lot of skepticism remains because (among other reasons):<\/p>\n

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[H]e often says he wants to make deals and that conservatism is a second-order concern for him, and making deals with the Democrats on judges would preclude fighting for judicial conservatives. (Trump\u2019s interest in getting conservative judges on the bench is in doubt; the Democrats\u2019 interest in blocking them is not.) Fifth, because he has frequently broken his word and casually abandoned his previously stated positions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On the other hand, giving us specific names increases the likelihood at least somewhat, simply because we now have clear markers by which to evaluate his performance. So the vetting continues<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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