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Sen. Chuck Grassley is predicting that President Trump will get to nominate a second justice to the Supreme Court as early as this summer.
The Iowa Republican, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said there is a "rumored" upcoming retirement but declined to say which justice he expects to step down.
"I would expect a resignation this summer," Grassley said during a Q&A with the Muscatine Journal in Iowa.
Grassley added that the president's next Supreme Court nominee would likely come off the list of roughly two dozen names Trump announced before taking over the White House.
Trump could be able to make multiple nominations, allowing him to shape the direction of the court for decades. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Grassley would be responsible for shepherding the nomination through the Senate.
Two justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Anthony Kennedy, are in their 80s, and Justice Stephen Breyer is 78.
The administration, according to The New York Times, is already looking at potential successors if Kennedy, the court's perennial swing vote, retires.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-acti...ther-supreme-court-vacancy-likely-this-summer
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just so it isn't Thomas
The Iowa Republican, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said there is a "rumored" upcoming retirement but declined to say which justice he expects to step down.
"I would expect a resignation this summer," Grassley said during a Q&A with the Muscatine Journal in Iowa.
Grassley added that the president's next Supreme Court nominee would likely come off the list of roughly two dozen names Trump announced before taking over the White House.
Trump could be able to make multiple nominations, allowing him to shape the direction of the court for decades. As chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Grassley would be responsible for shepherding the nomination through the Senate.
Two justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Anthony Kennedy, are in their 80s, and Justice Stephen Breyer is 78.
The administration, according to The New York Times, is already looking at potential successors if Kennedy, the court's perennial swing vote, retires.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-acti...ther-supreme-court-vacancy-likely-this-summer
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just so it isn't Thomas