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Judge Andrew Napolitano may be temporarily sidelined at Fox News, but he’s been telling friends and associates that he could be in for a big promotion — to the Supreme Court.

After meeting with President Trump twice during the transition, first in December and again in mid-January, the Newark, N.J.-born television personality told several people that Trump said he was on the list of judges from whom he was selecting a nominee for the high court.

“He said, ‘Trump said I’m on the list,’” said a source who spoke with Napolitano shortly after one of his meetings with the then president-elect. “He’s been saying that since the transition.”

Friends warned Napolitano not to take the president too literally – or seriously. “He'll take your call and invite you to the Oval Office, but he just wants you to say nice things about him on TV,” the source says he told Napolitano at the time. But that didn’t sink the ambitious judge’s hopes.

Trump released a list of potential replacements for the late Justice Antonin Scalia before the election, vowing to select Scalia’s replacement from that list — and followed through, tapping Tenth Circuit judge Neil Gorsuch for the nomination in January. Napolitano’s name did not appear on any public list.

More: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/andrew-napolitano-supreme-court-shortlist-trump-236488
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Re: Napolitano told friends he was on Trump's Supreme Court shortlist
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2017, 07:56:54 pm »
if that's true, then Trump is even crazier than we thought

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Re: Napolitano told friends he was on Trump's Supreme Court shortlist
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2017, 01:05:31 am »
You have got to be shitting me.

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Re: Napolitano told friends he was on Trump's Supreme Court shortlist
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2017, 03:39:10 am »
extremely unimpressive!  When I used to watch FOX I turned it off when he was on.
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Re: Napolitano told friends he was on Trump's Supreme Court shortlist
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2017, 04:22:43 am »
    So was Trump's Sister at one time, the bar was set pretty low in the beggining.
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