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Comment by erichurkman | Hacker News Reader

Trump's campaign has been blasting SCOTUS picks to their email list for weeks. From the latest one:

  > Did you hear the news? President Trump has released his shortlist for candidates for the Supreme Court. Here is a sneak preview of a few of the names on the list:
  > Senator Tom Cotton
  > Senator Josh Hawley
  > Senator Ted Cruz
  > And more…

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Wow Hawley and Cotton have risen meteorically. I would have half-expected Hawley's crypto-unionist populism to have kept him off such a list, but he'd surely be better than the others mentioned. Somehow, he ran for MO Attorney General without promising to further brutalize minorities. Within two years he was in the Senate and now within two more years he would be on the Supreme Court? Wow.

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