Trump Says He Will Delegate Judicial Selection To The Conservative Federalist Society

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has a message for members of his party who fear that he will appoint someone to the bench who is insufficiently conservative: chill! Trump’s not even planning on picking judges himself. Rather, he told a radio show hosted by the pro-Trump media site Breitbart earlier this week, he will delegate this function to a leading conservative legal group.

It’s Trump’s latest, and most explicit, effort to allay fears among conservatives who fear that his judges could depart from the Republican Party’s preferred reading of the Constitution. Trump previously indicated that he was working with the Heritage Foundation, an influential conservative policy shop, to identify potential Supreme Court nominees. Last month, he released a list of 11 white people that he would consider appointing to the nation’s highest Court, a list that was praised even by Trump skeptics on the right.

Trump’s remarks on the Breitbart radio show, however, may be his most explicit statement that he plans to leave judicial selection to movement conservatives....
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