The Front-Runners and Full List of Potential Supreme Court Nominees

By The New York Times

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy announced on Wednesday that he would retire from the Supreme Court. His vacancy sets up a showdown for a replacement that could change the direction of the highest court in the United States.

[Read our story on Justice Kennedy’s retirement.]

President Trump said he intends to choose his next Supreme Court nominee from a list he began compiling during the 2016 presidential campaign.

“I think you see the kind of quality that we’re looking at when you look at that list,” Mr. Trump said Wednesday in the Oval Office.

He added, “So it will be somebody from that list.”

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