{"id":70231,"date":"2018-07-09T13:58:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T17:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=70231"},"modified":"2018-07-09T13:58:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T17:58:31","slug":"trump-weighs-top-picks-for-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=70231","title":{"rendered":"Trump Weighs Top Picks For Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>President Trump\u00a0<\/strong>said he was \u201cclose\u201d to choosing a Supreme Court nominee Sunday after a weekend at his New Jersey golf club evaluating four leading candidates and mulling the likely response of key senators and his core supporters to each prospect, according to White House officials and <strong>Trump\u00a0<\/strong>advisers involved in the discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Over rounds of golf with friends, meals with family, and a flurry of phone calls and meetings with aides, <strong>Trump\u00a0<\/strong>remained coy about his final decision, which is expected to be announced Monday evening from among the four federal judges atop his shortlist:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/kavanaughs-unorthodox-path-to-trumps-supreme-court-shortlist\/2018\/07\/06\/dbf3c9de-8077-11e8-b0ef-fffcabeff946_story.html?utm_term=.814eb837b28c\">Brett M. Kavanaugh<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/supreme-court-candidate-thomas-hardiman-an-extremist-on-gun-rights\/2018\/07\/05\/22726b70-8057-11e8-bb6b-c1cb691f1402_story.html?utm_term=.752144033b84\">Thomas Hardiman<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/supreme-court-contender-kethledge-enters-spotlight-as-conservatives-look-for-gorsuch-20\/2018\/07\/07\/36b36b1e-8063-11e8-bb6b-c1cb691f1402_story.html?utm_term=.b10ff37ddf37\">Raymond Kethledge<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/amy-coney-barrett-possible-supreme-court-nominee-has-backed-flexible-approach-to-court-precedent\/2018\/07\/05\/e8b63b7c-7f1c-11e8-b9f0-61b08cdd0ea1_story.html?utm_term=.2fd77547c459\">Amy Coney Barrett.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very close to making a decision,\u201d <strong>Trump\u00a0<\/strong>told reporters Sunday afternoon. \u201cHave not made it official yet. Have not made it final.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cIt\u2019s still \u2014 let\u2019s say it\u2019s the four people. But they\u2019re excellent. Every one. You can\u2019t go wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump\u00a0said he was \u201cclose\u201d to choosing a Supreme Court nominee Sunday after a weekend at his New Jersey golf club evaluating four leading candidates and mulling the likely response of key senators and his core supporters to each prospect, according to White House officials and Trump\u00a0advisers involved in the discussions. Over rounds of golf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trump-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}