Trump spends the weekend at his golf resort talking to White House lawyer about supreme court nominee
White House counsel Don McGahn will oversee US President Donald Trump’s nomination of a replacement for retiring supreme court justice Anthony Kennedy, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. Trump plans to name a nominee on July 9, he said on Friday. The White House aims to have Kennedy’s replacement confirmed in time for the court’s next session in October. Trump spent the weekend at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf resort, where he had "extensive" conversations with McGahn about the nomination, an administration official said. He studied up on the backgrounds of potential nominees but did not interview anyone in person. Sanders’s top deputy, Raj Shah, will take leave from his current role to oversee communications, strategy and "messaging co-ordination" with allied legislators, Sanders said on Monday. The director of the White House office of public liaison, Justin Clark, will be in charge of outreach to interest groups and other outside allies. Trump has said ...
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