Mike Lee on Trump’s Expanded Supreme Court List
Close Cruz ally among newly proposed appointees as GOP nominee makes final push for party unity
Donald Trump is set to release an expanded short list of potential SCOTUS nominations Friday, which remarkably includes previously outspoken NeverTrump Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
The move suggests Trump is extending an olive branch to former rival Sen. Ted Cruz, who might be on the verge of endorsing the GOP nominee’s presidential bid. The nod for Lee may be part of a process that began earlier this week when Trump endorsed Cruz’s current efforts to block the transfer of IANA oversight from the Department of Commerce to ICANN.
“Donald Trump continues to take unprecedented steps to demonstrate that he intends to appoint justices like Scalia, Thomas, and Alito.”
“Donald Trump continues to take unprecedented steps to demonstrate that he intends to appoint justices like Scalia, Thomas, and Alito,” said Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network and former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas, in a statement.
“Conservatives should be very pleased by the steps he has taken, and if he lives up to his promises we will have a court that truly puts the rule of law ahead of political preferences,” Severino said.
The selection of Lee shows not only a Trump who desires a strong united front against HIllary Clinton, but also a Trump who is willing to extend a hand of friendship to even his harshest critics.
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