Two Alabama jurists on Trump’s Supreme Court nominee list
Judge
The Associated Press on Friday reported Pryor is "prominent" on a list of 25 candidates alongside a
Trump said this weekend he plans to release his choice on
According to a 2004
After Sessions was elected to the
Pryor managed to draw the ire of both national
In
But in
After Moore was suspended from the
Moore supporters later protested Pryor's appointment to the bench in early 2004, which Bush made during a congressional recess to give him a two-year term.
The
Despite Pryor's prominent place on Trump's 2017 shortlist, his name hasn't been floated quite as prominently in the search for Kennedy's replacement.
Collins, alongside fellow Sen.
"I would not support a nominee who demonstrated hostility to Roe v. Wade because that would mean to me that their judicial philosophy did not include a respect for established decisions, established law," Collins said.
The
Newsom, a former solicitor general, attended
Pryor is also considered a protege of
During his time on the bench, Pryor has been criticized by both liberals and conservatives over various rulings. Despite his earlier comments and writings on social issues such as abortion and LGBT rights, Pryor in 2011 was part of a three-judge panel that ruled in favor of a transgender woman who sued
Earlier this year, he ruled that an
"He's not some kind of rigid ideologue," said
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