Sex And Skin Color Doesn’t Mean Trump’s Potential Supreme Court Picks Lack Diversity

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The Federalist:

Sex And Skin Color Doesn’t Mean Trump’s Potential Supreme Court Picks Lack Diversity

If you look at characteristics other than skin tone and Y-chromosome, you could hardly get a more varied set of candidates to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat.

By Ilya Shapiro

January 29, 2017

As we approach the end of the race for the vacant Supreme Court seat, pundits seem obsessed by the lack of “diversity” among President Trump’s would-be justices. Judges Neil Gorsuch, Thomas Hardiman, and William Pryor may be the best jurists since Solomon, goes the narrative, but they’re awfully bland.

“Meet the 3 white men on Trump’s reported shortlist,” reads the title of a ThinkProgress analysis. (“Plus 5 more white people he’s reported to have considered,” added the subtitle.) The Associated Press likewise explains in the second sentence of its story that those being considered are “all white men.” Even reporters who are favorably disposed to the finalists feel obligated to note that “as three straight white males, they aren’t a terribly diverse bunch.”

 

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January 29. 2017 8:44PM

The short list: Impressive choices for bench

 

EDITORIAL

 

President Donald Trump plans to announce his pick for the vacant seat on the U.S. Supreme Court this week.

 

Checking the short list of contenders leaked to the press last week, the choice will likely be a good one.

 

Appeals court judges Neil Gorsuch, Thomas Hardiman, and William Pryor all have distinguished records as prudent, thoughtful jurists

http://www.unionleader.com/editorial/The-short-list-Impressive-choices-for-bench-01302017#sthash.oquGraf3.dpuf

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1/30/2017

Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Should Not Be Thomas Hardiman

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 2:00 am

Donald Trump announces his pick for the Supreme Court this week. The top candidates include Judge Bill Pryor of the 11th Circuit, Judge Neil Gorsuch of the 10th Circuit, and Judge Thomas Hardiman of the 3d Circuit. Some news outlets have suggested that Trump may be leaning towards Hardiman, in part because he thinks Hardiman would be easier to confirm, and in part because his sister, Maryanne Trump Barry (another 3d Circuit judge), recommends Hardiman.

 

Neither is a good reason to pick Hardiman now, and it’s my view that Judge Hardiman is not the best choice to replace Justice Scalia. Thomas Hardiman appears to be a good judge and might make a solid pick down the road. But not now. Not for Scalia’s seat.

By contrast, Pryor and Gorsuch appear to be suitable candidates to follow Scalia — even if they might be a bit tougher

 

I became sold on Bill Pryor when I read that he once ended a talk with a prayer, saying: “Please, God. No more Souters.” I think it might be worth quoting the last few sentences of that talk, delivered to a meeting of the Federalist Sodiety when Pryor was the Attorney General of Alabama, because it shines a light (in my view, a very positive light) on his priorities:

http://patterico.com/2017/01/30/donald-trumps-supreme-court-pick-should-not-be-thomas-hardiman/

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Judge Neil Gorsuch – Colorado native and Washington, D.C., insider

By Andrew Hamm on Jan 30, 2017 at 11:45 am

 

Judge Neil Gorsuch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit was “taking a breather” in the middle of a ski run when he heard that Justice Antonin Scalia had died. In a speech last April, Gorsuch added that he was “not embarrassed to admit” he cried his way down the mountain. Nearly a year later, Gorsuch is being widely discussed as a possible replacement for Scalia, whom he called in that speech a “lion of the law.” President Donald Trump included Gorsuch’s name on a list of potential nominees to the Supreme Court, and Trump has also reportedly met with the judge.

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