Trump outsourced picking court appointments; Enlisting help has made it smoothest part of presidency; ANALYSIS
Yet when it comes to stocking the nation's federal courts, Trump has performed with remarkable efficiency and success. He got the
His secret: outsourcing.
Unlike in other areas in which Trump insists on calling the shots, the president has deferred to a trio of more experienced hands when it comes to the judicial nominations so important to his conservative base.
"This is a zone where Trump is willing to say, 'I got a guy here who knows what he's doing,' " said
Gingrich was talking about
The third player is Senate Majority Leader
Lesser known than the other two men, Leo has spent decades working toward a judiciary that shares his anti-abortion rights views and conservative positions on interpreting the
The list Leo began preparing during the campaign now includes 25 people, all but one of them judges with long records on the issues conservatives most care about. Candidate Trump released it to assure conservative voters who were wary of him, thrice-married and former Democrat who had an inconsistent record on abortion, gun control and other litmus-test issues.
Trump has said that Monday he will name a replacement for Justice
"As a political gambit, it's unassailable," Kmiec said of Trump's list, noting that it helped Trump gain political backing from evangelical voters and other conservative skeptics during the campaign.
But what's objectionable, he said, is "just the precedent of a president giving up this authority en masse."
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