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Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) chairs a hearing of the Judiciary Committee's Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights Subcommittee last month.
THE BIG IDEA:
-- Prominent conservatives are lobbying Donald Trump to say that he will nominate Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to the Supreme Court if hes elected president.
And Trumps main rival for the nomination, Ted Cruz, has already said hed consider his best friend in the Senate for the seat that opened with Antonin Scalias death.
As President Obama travels to the University of Chicago this afternoon to deliver a speech calling for Merrick Garlands confirmation, Senate Republican leaders are expressing confidence they can hold firm through the November election in refusing to grant him even a hearing. If Hillary Clinton wins in November, there will be pressure to quickly confirm Garland so that she could not appoint someone who is younger and more liberal. If she loses, then the next Republican president will get to nominate someone else.
While the rest of the mainstream media is preoccupied with the Garland battle, conservative luminaries are increasingly looking ahead to next year and quietly touting Lee as a potential nominee. Republican senators like this idea, and Democrats are figuring out how theyd respond.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/04/07/daily-202-key-conservatives-pushing-mike-lee-for-the-supreme-court/5705472c981b92a22ddc6367/?wpmm=1&wpisrc=nl_evening
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Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)but that doesn't mean she would.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)you can bet they'll be falling all over themselves trying to get Garland confirmed.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)The GOP is really putting all of their eggs in this basket.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)I am loving it, watching these scumbags break on the rocks is fantastic.
I hope it leaves them in the cold for years.
beerandjesus
(1,301 posts)Hey, while we're at it, why not Duncan Hunter? Or Virginia Foxx? Or Louie Gohmert?