Interesting that nearly half of Trump's #SCOTUS list are on state high courts now:https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonwells/donald-trump-releases-list-of-11-potential-supreme-court-nom?utm_term=.jn8oeWjLm7#.wvxjYgWV2P …
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Compare that with
#SCOTUS, where the Chief Justice, Thomas, and Ginsburg all came from the DC Circuit, & other 4 from other fed appeals cts.4 replies 2 retweets 3 likes -
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Breyer (1st), Sotomayor (2nd), Alito (3rd), and Kennedy (9th). Only Kagan didn't come from a fed appeals ct; She came from the SG's Office.
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Both of Obama's prior vacancies came from justices who had been fed appeals ct judges before SCOTUS: Souter (1st) and Stevens (7th).
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Rehnquist, like Kagan, had come from the Department of Justice before becoming a justice.
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Sandra Day O'Connor is the last person nominated to the Supreme Court directly from a state court: Arizona Court of Appeals.
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O'Connor was nominated for #SCOTUS by President Ronald Reagan in the summer of 1981.
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