Who are the 11 people on Donald Trump’s short list for the Supreme Court? [View all]

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Steven Colloton, of Iowa

This Iowa native has served on the U.S. Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit since 2003. He has as pretty traditional law background -- editor of Yale Law Journal, clerked for Justice William Rehnquist in 1989 and '90, and served as a U.S. Attorney as well as an independent federal investigative agency once headed by Ken Starr, of Bill Clinton impeachment trial fame. President George W. Bush appointed him U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, and he rose to the appeals court in 2003.

Allison Eid, of Colorado

Eid has served on Colorado's state Supreme Court for the past decade. Before that, she was the solicitor general for Colorado, which means she defended state agencies and officials in court. She's a University of Chicago Law School grad and clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas. In 2002, Bush appointed her to serve on a committee to write the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. Colorado's GOP governor at the time, Bill Owens, then appointed her to serve on the state's Supreme Court. She won reelection to the job in 2008 with 75 percent of the vote.

Thomas Hardiman, of Pennsylvania

Hardiman is a U.S. Appeals Court judge for the Third Circuit and also a Bush appointee. He's a Georgetown Law grad and has written two majority opinions that were reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court -- one that strengthens mandatory minimum sentences for criminals and another that ruled a Pennsylvania jail's policy of strip searching the people it arrests does not violate someone's 4th Amendment right of unreasonable searches and seizures.


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William Pryor, of Alabama

Pryor is Alabama's former attorney general; at the time he was the youngest state attorney general in the U.S., according to AL.com. Bush nominated him to be a circuit court judge, and today he serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th circuit. During his confirmation hearings, Pryor called Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling legalizing abortion, "the worst abomination in the history of constitutional law." He was eventually confirmed 53-45.

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