Trump supreme court pick: favourites emerge in rush to name nominee
White House staff scramble to vet president’s ‘incredible’ conservative candidates ahead of Monday announcement
Donald Trump has interviewed four candidates to replace Anthony Kennedy, the retiring supreme court justice, and may interview two or more additional potential picks, leaving White House staff members scrambling to complete a vetting process in time for the planned announcement of the president’s pick on Monday 9 July.
The four candidates interviewed so far, first reported by the Above the Law blog, are all federal appeals court judges whose names appear on a list of 25 supreme court prospects published last year by the White House. Some were confirmed by the Senate for their federal posts as recently as last year.
Judges on the list were selected by Trump and the White House counsel Don McGahn on the strength of their conservative credentials, which appear in all cases to include an opposition to abortion rights and skepticism over same-sex marriage and other LGBT rights. The Federalist Society, a national society of conservative lawyers, to the process.
Before his selection last year of Neil Gorsuch to replace the deceased justice Antonin Scalia, Trump interviewed multiple candidates including Thomas M Hardiman, who serves on the third circuit court of appeals alongside Trump’s sister, Maryanne Trump Barry.
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/jul/03/supreme-court-replacement-kennedy-trump-interview
Lets go back and see how one, Amy Coney Barrett answered a question on "payments"
