San Diego Union-Tribune (Sunday)
TRUMP’S POSSIBLE HIGH COURT NOMINEES
President say he’ll choose a woman; men not ruled out
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death Friday, just six weeks before Election Day, is expected to unleash a pitched battle over whether President Donald Trump should nominate — and the Republican-led Senate should confirm — her successor, or whether the seat should remain vacant until the outcome of Trump’s race against Democrat Joe Biden is known.
Trump said Saturday that he would nominate a woman, but sources close to Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said others were in the running. Here are some of the women said to top Trump’s list:
BRIDGET BADE
Bade is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. She is a graduate of Arizona State University and ASU’S Sandra Day O’connor College of Law.
AMY CONEY BARRETT
Barrett is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. She’s a graduate of Rhodes College and Notre Dame’s law school, and a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
ALLISON EID
Eid is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. She graduated from Stanford and the University of Chicago’s law school and was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
BARBARA LAGOA
Lagoa is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. Before her appointment in 2019, Lagoa was a justice on the Florida Supreme Court. She is a graduate of Florida International University and Columbia Law School.
JOAN LARSEN
Larsen is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. She graduated from the University of Northern Iowa and Northwestern University School of Law and was a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia.
MARTHA PACOLD
Martha Pacold is a federal judge in Illinois and former deputy general counsel at the Treasury Department. A graduate of Indiana University and the University of Chicago Law School, she clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence
Thomas.
SARAH PITLYK
Pitlyk is federal judge in Missouri and former special counsel at the Thomas More Society. She clerked for thenjudge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. She graduated from Boston College, Georgetown University and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium; and Yale Law School.
ALLISON JONES RUSHING
Rushing is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. She clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and thenjudge Neil Gorsuch on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. She graduated from Wake Forest University and Duke University School of Law.
Here are some of the men who are said to be on Trump’s list of potential nominees:
STEVEN COLLOTON
Colloton is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. He graduated from Princeton University and Yale’s law school. He was a law clerk for Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist.
STEVEN ENGEL
Engel is the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice. Engel clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. He is a graduate of Harvard College, Cambridge University and Yale Law School.
NOEL FRANCISCO
Francisco is a former U.S. solicitor general. Before his appointment in 2017, Francisco was in private practice and served in the Office of Legal Counsel as deputy assistant attorney general and as associate counsel to Trump. Francisco clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and its law school.
BRITT GRANT
Grant is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and formerly a justice on the Supreme Court of Georgia. She graduated from Wake Forest University and attended law school at Stanford.
RAYMOND GRUENDER
Gruender is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. He has undergraduate, business and law degrees from Washington University in St. Louis.
THOMAS HARDIMAN
Hardiman is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and Georgetown’s law school.
JAMES HO
Ho is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. Before his appointment in 2018, Ho was in private practice and had served
Texas as solicitor general. Ho clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He graduated from Stanford and the University of Chicago Law School.
CARLOS MUNIZ
Muniz is a justice on the Florida Supreme Court. Prior to his appointment in 2019, Muniz served as general counsel to the U.S. Department of Education and in various positions in the Florida state government. Muniz is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Yale Law School.
WILLIAM PRYOR
Pryor is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. He went to law school at Tulane.
AMUL THAPAR
Thapar is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. Before that, he was a U.S. district court judge in Kentucky and a federal prosecutor.