Republican Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Lists Senators Cruz and Lee as Supreme Court Justice Candidates

Biotech Entrepreneur and Republican Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Announced list of 16 nominees for US on Monday supreme court He is the first party to list possible appointments for an attorney general, as his election would face a federal appeals court.

Ramaswami’s list includes Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah as candidates for the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as the elevation of the federal judge who ousted the president. there is Joe Bidenaviation mask mandate and 20 years of abortion drug approval by the FDA.

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During the 2016 primary, Mr. Trump released a list of candidates for High Court appointments to reassure voters of his new party that he was in line with the judicial agenda.

Ramaswamy, 37, said in an interview that he would publish the list of candidates for appointment to show voters where he stands.

“When asking voters to elect the next president of the United States, it’s important to be as transparent as possible about what you’re doing,” Ramaswami said.

Ramaswami is the latest Republican nominee to try to restore conservative enthusiasm around the courtroom at a time when Democrats are gaining more momentum from conservative rulings.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he would appoint a more powerful conservative than Mr. Trump to the court. Three Trump appointees helped form a majority in last year’s ruling to revoke women’s constitutional right to abortion, a long-held goal of conservatives. Trump himself has frequently savored court rulings, noting that he appointed half of the 6-3 conservative majority.

Ramaswamy said he had no reason to criticize Trump’s appointment.

“It’s a bizarre criticism,” he said of the argument that Trump’s election was not conservative enough.

Ramaswamy’s own list includes the names of prominent conservative lawyers. He said he would nominate either Cruz or Lee only if he didn’t change the balance in the U.S. Senate, which is currently dominated by Democrats by two votes. Another prominent name on the High Court list is Paul Clement, who served as Attorney General for former President George W. Bush.

Ramaswamy is also proposing to upgrade several district court judges to national appellate courts. He cites the example of Amarillo-based federal judge Matthew Kaksmalik, who said April’s ruling on abortion drugs was riddled with anti-abortion rights activist language and was criticized by appeals judges and the Supreme Court. immediately put on hold.

The list also includes Kathryn Mizell, who was nominated by President Trump to a Florida judge at the age of 38 and who rescinded President Biden’s air travel mask mandate last year.

Another prominent conservative justice on Ramaswamy’s Supreme Court list is James Ho, another Trump nominee to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals post based in Texas. , whose judgment is full of conservative political rhetoric. Ramaswami said the judge’s citation of his own book, Woke, Inc., in one of his sentences first caught Ho’s attention.