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The real question to which we may now find out the answer is just how serious Mr. Trump was about replacing Justice Scalia with a judge cut from the same cloth, and how much pressure he'll receive from Republicans in the Senate to stick to his original list - or a judge with similarly conservative credentials", said Steve Vladeck, CNN contributor and professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law. He acknowledged that some of his Senate candidates have been challenged by having Trump, the controversial Republican presidential nominee, at the ticket, and said he expects some of those senators to run ahead of the real estate mogul.
60 percent of political independents say confirm Garland, perhaps some anxious about a Clinton nominee.
If Democrat nominee Clinton wins the presidency, there is a chance the Republican-controlled Senate will confirm Garland, rather than waiting for the next Democratic president to nominate someone. Trump has said he will draw his Supreme Court nominee from a list of 20 judges and one senator: Mike Lee of Utah.
"This is the greatest honor of my life", Garland said during his nomination announcement. The U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the Carr brothers' sentences in January.
Q: And why hasn't he had a hearing yet? Republicans control the Senate, and so they chose to do nothing. Now that it's President-elect Donald Trump and a Republican majority in the Senate, what happens next?
His subsequent proposed list included Dianne S. Sykes, who was appointed to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by former President George W. Bush and is a favorite of conservative legal scholars; Steven M. Colloton on the 8th Circuit, who clerked for the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, and Raymond M. Kethledge of the 6th Circuit, who clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Burr had stated that he would ensure "that four years from now, we're still going to have an opening on the Supreme Court".
Conservatives have been warned they are one liberal justice away from being on the losing side of abortion, religious liberty and the Second Amendment, among other issues. It's virtually impossible to find a person in Washington with anything bad to say about Garland.
"I think there will be plenty of time for debate on that issue", Cruz said.
Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland died with the election returns, in essence vindicating the unprecedented confirmation policy of obstruction adopted by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
That's why Republican senators have refused to even give a hearing to Garland.
Democrats unilaterally got rid of this rule when Sen.
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Q: When does his nomination expire?
The eight justices now seated are delightfully evenly split between liberals and conservatives, so Trump's nomination is likely to shift the balance over to the conservative side. The President, "shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers, consuls and judges of the Supreme Court".
All the potential nominees on Trump's list except one are sitting judges in state and federal appellate courts.
Trump's election represents a lost opportunity for liberals, and they are fearful of what comes next at the Supreme Court.
McConnell has said no Obama nominee will be confirmed this year.
