{"id":63786,"date":"2017-01-19T08:38:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T12:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=63786"},"modified":"2017-01-19T08:39:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T12:39:12","slug":"63786","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=63786","title":{"rendered":"Fox News superstar to be on Trump’s Supreme Court?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conservatives’ favorite legal eagle emerges from meeting with president-elect
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Judge Andrew Napolitano (Photo: Screenshot)<\/p><\/div>\n

Chelsea Schilling
\n<\/a>WND.com<\/span><\/p>\n

Judge Andrew Napolitano was spotted for a second time at Trump Tower Tuesday morning, leading to speculation that President-elect Donald Trump may be considering the judge for a position on the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court judge and Fox News senior judicial analyst, is a favorite commentator in\u00a0conservative and libertarian circles. After he emerged from an elevator at Trump Tower Tuesday, several blogs<\/a>, including one published by former Rep. Allen West<\/a>, began speculating about Napolitano\u2019s meeting with Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump might be seeking advice from the libertarian analyst \u2014 and maybe, just maybe he might be considering the Fox analyst for a Supreme Court position,\u201d wrote PJ Media\u2019s Tyler O\u2019Neil<\/a>. \u201cWhile Napolitano is not one of the 21 names on Trump\u2019s SCOTUS list, anything is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Matt Palumbo at Allen West\u2019s blog added, \u201cIf he\u2019s not in consideration for what will be the most contested appointment Trump makes, he\u2019s undeniably going to be influential in picking who that person is.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the meeting, Napolitano told Fox Business\u2019 Stuart Varney, \u201cThe president-elect is focusing on his choices, or his choice, for the Supreme Court of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

Napolitano continued, \u201cWe discussed the judicial attitudes, judicial temperament, judicial ideology and candidates for the court.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his columns published on WND<\/a> and in public statements, the judge has been outspoken on the issue of Hillary Clinton\u2019s unsecured private email server, even suggesting the Department of Justice may reopen the email case against the former secretary of state.<\/p>\n

Judge Napolitano visits Trump Tower Tuesday:<\/em><\/p>\n

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With his inauguration just days away, Trump\u2019s\u00a0nomination to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative stalwart, is expected at any time. As of Tuesday,\u00a0Judge William H. Pryor Jr. was widely\u00a0considered to be Trump\u2019s most likely choice for the nomination. Trump\u2019s current list of 21 candidates for the Supreme Court does not include Napolitano. The following is\u00a0the list of individuals Trump is reportedly considering for the high court<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. Keith Blackwell
\n2. Charles Canady
\n3. Steven Colloto
\n4. Allison Eid
\n5. Neil Gorsuch
\n6. Raymond Gruender
\n7. Thomas Hardiman
\n8. Raymond Kethledge
\n9. Joan Larsen
\n10. Mike Lee
\n11. Thomas Lee
\n12. Edward Mansfield
\n13. Federico Moreno
\n14. William Pryor
\n15. Margaret A. Ryan
\n16. Amul Thapar
\n17. Timothy Tymkovich
\n18. David Stras
\n19. Diane Sykes
\n20. Don Willett
\n21. Robert Young<\/p>\n

Trump has promised to pick a candidate that shares the late Justice Scalia\u2019s faithfulness to the U.S. Constitution and conservatism.<\/p>\n

As WND reported<\/a>, his rumored top choice is William Pryor, a judge on\u00a0the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit\u00a0since 2004. WND CEO and Editor Joseph Farah recently advised Trump against nominating Pryor in his daily column, calling the judge an \u201cestablishment hack.\u201d<\/a> Farah cited Pryor\u2019s 2003 prosecution of then-Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore for violating judicial ethics after Moore pledged to display a\u00a0Ten Commandments monument at a state judicial building in Montgomery.<\/p>\n

Farah\u00a0noted that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2015 that a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol was constitutional and that the U.S. Supreme Court chamber itself has a display of the Ten Commandments on the ceiling.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoes anyone, Donald Trump included, think Antonin Scalia would hold that Judge Roy Moore should have been removed from office for displaying the Ten Commandments?\u201d Farah asked. \u201cIf not, then we should agree that the man who prosecuted Roy Moore for defying that illegal federal court order as a judicial ethics violation is hardly worthy of replacing him on the high court.\u201d<\/p>\n

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