Of suddenly greater interest, here again (via Ed Whelan at NRO) is Donald Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees:
Steven Colloton, Eighth Circuit
Allison Eid, Colorado Supreme Court
Raymond Gruender, Eighth Circuit
Thomas Hardiman, Third Circuit
Raymond Kethledge, Sixth Circuit
Joan Larsen, Michigan Supreme Court
Thomas Lee, Utah Supreme Court
William Pryor, Eleventh Circuit
David Stras, Minnesota Supreme Court
Diane Sykes, Seventh Circuit
Don Willett, Texas Supreme Court
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah
Neil Gorsuch, Tenth Circuit
Margaret Ryan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
Edward Mansfield, Iowa Supreme Court
Keith Blackwell, Georgia Supreme Court
Charles Canady, Florida Supreme Court
Timothy Tymkovich, Tenth Circuit
Amul Thapar, Eastern District of Kentucky
Federico Moreno, Southern District of Florida
Robert Young, Michigan Supreme Court
How many of these are originalist-oriented? Time permitting, I will try to offer some assessments over the next few weeks.
Incidentally, I hope that liberal law professors and commentators who have argued for the Senate's duty to vote promptly on Supreme Court nominations will continue to do so once President Trump makes a nomination (yes, that means you, Dean Chemerinsky). And I hope that conservative law professors and commentators who have said that the short-handed Court is no big deal will continue to think so after January 20.
RELATED: Thoughts on Trump and the Court here, from James R. Rogers at Liberty Law Blog.
Posted at 6:46 AM