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| | + | <center>''For a discussion of frontrunner Raymond Kethledge, see [[Trump Supreme Court#Kethledge|here]]''.</center> |
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| | During his 2016 campaign for President, [[Donald Trump]] released two lists of candidates for a vacancy on the Supreme Court and pledged to appoint Justices from those lists.<ref name="NYT-5-18"> | | During his 2016 campaign for President, [[Donald Trump]] released two lists of candidates for a vacancy on the Supreme Court and pledged to appoint Justices from those lists.<ref name="NYT-5-18"> |
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| | *Diane Sykes: | | *Diane Sykes: |
| | ::ruled against a pro-life Indiana law, and required taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood; as a state court judge Sykes sentenced two veteran abortion protesters to 60 days in jail (see table below). | | ::ruled against a pro-life Indiana law, and required taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood; as a state court judge Sykes sentenced two veteran abortion protesters to 60 days in jail (see table below). |
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| − | *Neil Gorsuch:
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| − | ::wrote about abortion using the terminology of the pro-abortion side, without ever referring to the "unborn child"; he has avoided mentioning abortion as a judge but has favorably cited the Blackmun decision that gave abortionists legal standing to challenge pro-life laws; and while religious beliefs are not a test for public office, Gorsuch's Episcopalian church has declared its "unequivocal opposition" to pro-life laws and he has said nothing publicly pro-life. In addition, Gorsuch was one of the first to hold that there is a federal right for a man to claim special protections for thinking that his "gender identity" is that of a woman.
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| | *<span id="Kethledge"></span id>Raymond Kethledge: | | *<span id="Kethledge"></span id>Raymond Kethledge: |
| | ::joined a decision that favorably cited a precedent censoring a pro-life advertisement, and held against allowing a [[Christian]] advertisement too. In addition, Kethledge refused to join a concurrence by conservative Judge Boggs that would have established the greatest protection of "[[strict scrutiny]]" for infringements on the [[Second Amendment]] right to keep and bear arms. | | ::joined a decision that favorably cited a precedent censoring a pro-life advertisement, and held against allowing a [[Christian]] advertisement too. In addition, Kethledge refused to join a concurrence by conservative Judge Boggs that would have established the greatest protection of "[[strict scrutiny]]" for infringements on the [[Second Amendment]] right to keep and bear arms. |
| | ::Judge Kethledge ruled 2-1 against Immigration Services to allow an illegal alien, who had illegally overstayed his visa by 10 years, to challenge the denial of a new employment visa application. Patel v. United States Citizenship & Immigration Servs., 732 F.3d 633 (6th Cir. 2013) (Kethledge holding that an illegal alien who had overstayed his prior visa by 10 years nevertheless has legal standing to challenge the denial of a petition for a new employment visa by a new prospective employer). That was too much for even a Clinton-appointed judge, who dissented. | | ::Judge Kethledge ruled 2-1 against Immigration Services to allow an illegal alien, who had illegally overstayed his visa by 10 years, to challenge the denial of a new employment visa application. Patel v. United States Citizenship & Immigration Servs., 732 F.3d 633 (6th Cir. 2013) (Kethledge holding that an illegal alien who had overstayed his prior visa by 10 years nevertheless has legal standing to challenge the denial of a petition for a new employment visa by a new prospective employer). That was too much for even a Clinton-appointed judge, who dissented. |
| − | *Allison Eid:
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| − | ::unusually silent on abortion; she tersely dissented from a denial of cert. before the Colorado Sup. Ct. in a challenge to an injunction against abortion protesters, initially on only the limited grounds of the length of the injunction and then later only on free speech grounds.
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| | === Judge Bill Pryor === | | === Judge Bill Pryor === |