NorthDakota
Grandson of Loomis
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Trump wants someone who will fall in line with his vision of the powers of the Presidency - a Barr or a Kavanaugh - and views judicial decisions against his Administrative actions amounting to a betrayal. A Constitutional expert may view those differently. I would not be surprised if he nominated Barr, Cotton or Hawley.
Harvard or Yale - hopefully not for the diversity of the Court
Roe v Wade - I thought that came up when Feinstein questioned ACB for her Appeals Court nomination. I think ACB disagrees with Casey. I could be wrong.
Female - I may be reading into Trump's personality, but I don't think he values females as co-equals. (or equals if my grammar has failed me)
Family - I doubt he puts much stock into Barrett adopting two Haitian children. Now if they were Puerto Rican... Maybe he could spin the fact she gave those "losers" a chance. They will have a few advantages to be accepted into ND as legacies and minorities. Maybe she is a closet Affirmative Action proponent.
A.) He also nominated Neil Gorsuch. Not exactly Mr. Unita ry Executive Disciple. Also you seem to imply that only some of these judges are experts on the Constitution, anyone who gets nominated to the Supreme Court is probably pretty exceptionally knowledgeable on the Constitution.
B.) He already said it would almost certainly be a woman nominated. Further, I very much doubt that any President is going to analyze where a lady adopts their children from.
C.) Don't bother putting stock into what these people generally say during hearings... but saying Roe is precedent is just a factual statement. I don't know if she'd vote to overturn it or not but that statement is just acknowledging a fact, particularly in light of what job she was being confirmed to do.
Most of this read like a lazy journalist invented a caricature of the President and determined this was the proper lens to view the President's choices through.
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