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His nominee “will be somebody from that list,” Trump added.
Two of the candidates on Trump’s current list, Judges Thomas Hardiman and William Pryor, were the likely frontrunners alongside Gorsuch in January 2017, CBS News reported at the time.
Hardiman, 52, has served on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals since 2007, and was a federal judge in a Pennsylvania district beforehand. Pryor, 54, has called the 1973 abortion rights ruling Roe v. Wade “the worst abomination of constitutional law in our history.”
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is also included on the list. In a statement to CNBC, Lee said he would accept the nomination from Trump if it were offered to him.
“I started watching Supreme Court arguments for fun when I was 10 years old. So if somebody asked me if I would consider that I would not say no. But the president’s got a decision to make and I trust his ability to make it and make it well,” Lee said.
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