Trump’s Supreme Court Nominee Is ‘True-Blue Conservative’

July 10, 2018, 3:23 AM UTC

Brett Kavanaugh is President Donald Trump’s nominee to fill the seat vacated by retiring Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, the president announced July 9 in an evening ceremony at the White House.

The longtime judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit was one of four front-runners narrowed down from a list of 25. The others included Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Sixth Circuit Judge Raymond Kethledge, and Third Circuit Judge Thomas M. Hardiman, who was runner-up to Trump’s first Supreme Court pick, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch.

The reaction to the president’s pick was predictably mixed.

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