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Mr. Rove's third intervention came last year when the state's chief justice retired and Gov. Rick Perry privately offered to nominate Justice Owen to the post, senior Texas Republicans said in interviews.
He took 26 days to nominate Justice Sotomayor after Justice David Souter's retirement plans leaked to the media.
The Federalist Society, which grew up alongside the Reagan administration and helped nominate Justice Scalia, has grown increasingly powerful in the past few decades.
Now Heritage is pushing Trump to nominate Justice Bill Pryor of Alabama, John Malcolm, the foundation's legal studies director, told the Hill this week.
Obama took about a month to nominate Justice Kagan after Justice John Paul Stevens announced his retirement.
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On Friday, Mr. Cruz cheered Mr. Trump's vow to nominate justices "in the mold" of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February.
Regrettably, it did not reach consensus on having an independent commission nominate justices based on merit.
He has vowed to nominate justices to the supreme court who might overturn Roe v Wade.
But Trump has explicitly promised to nominate justices who might put Roe in their crosshairs.
Senator McCain has pledged to nominate justices in the mold of Antonin Scalia.
Mr Bush promised in 2004 to nominate justices in the mould of Antonin Scalia, the court's most articulate conservative.
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