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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="3938629" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="joan-larsen">Joan Larsen</keyword>, a <keyword id="142435" type="POSITION" weightage="60" keywordseo="federal-judge">federal judge</keyword> on President Trump's shortlist for the <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword>, was once a volunteer for <keyword id="99719" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Joe-Biden">Joe Biden</keyword>'s <keyword id="855076" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="presidential-campaign">presidential campaign</keyword> in <keyword id="440900" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="1987">1987</keyword>, according to CNN.</li><li>During her nomination process to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, Larsen completed a questionnaire for the Senate Judiciary Committee where she detailed her work in Biden's first presidential campaign.</li><li>In 1996, Larsen volunteered for the presidential campaign of Republican Bob Dole of Kansas.</li><li>Larsen clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and boasts strong conservative credentials as a member of the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation.</li></ul>Joan Larsen, a federal judge on President Trump's shortlist for the Supreme Court, was once a volunteer for Joe Biden's presidential campaign in 1987, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/21/politics/joan-larsen-joe-biden/index.html">according to CNN</a>.During <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-supreme-court-list-is-down-to-5-announcement-coming-friday-or-saturday">a Monday interview</a> on Fox News, Trump said that he had narrowed his list of candidates to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to five people, mentioning a "a great one from Michigan." According to an administration source, Trump was referring to Larsen.President Trump <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-will-announce-supreme-court-nominee-on-friday-or-saturday-2020-9">announced</a> on Tuesday that he would nominate a successor to Ginsburg on Saturday, a day after the pioneering jurist will <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ruth-bader-ginsburg-supreme-court-justice-repose-dignitary-arlington-2020-9">lie in state</a> at the US Capitol.Larsen, a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, which covers Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, was nominated to the federal bench by Trump in 2017. During her nomination process, she completed a questionnaire for the Senate Judiciary Committee where she detailed her work in Biden's first presidential campaign in response to a question about holding a leadership position in a political party or election committee."To the best of my recollection, during the summer of 1987, I did some low-level volunteer work (stuffing envelopes, making phones calls) for the campaign in Iowa," she wrote.In 1996, Larsen volunteered for the presidential campaign of Republican Bob Dole of Kansas, where, based on her memories of the time, she "drafted or edited one or two position papers, from facts supplied by the campaign."Biden launched his first presidential campaign in 1987, which fizzled out that same year. In 1988, then-Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts won the Democratic nomination and went on to lose the election to then-Vice President George H.W. Bush. In 1996, Dole lost the general election to incumbent President Bill Clinton.Larsen graduated from Northwestern University's law school and clerked for Judge David Sentelle of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. She saw Scalia as a mentor and a role model.In 2017, during Larsen's hearings for the Sixth Circuit nomination, she was asked how Scalia's jurisprudence affected her way of interpreting the law."Justice Scalia believed in following the law where the law led him," Larsen said. "He never worked the other way around. That is, find the result that you liked and then find the precedents to fit it."Larsen boasts strong conservative credentials as a member of the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation. She also served in the Department of Justice under former president George W. Bush.

A judge on Trump's Supreme Court shortlist volunteered for Biden's presidential campaign in 1987

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">REUTERS/Rick WilkingDonald Trump</div></div></div>The third and final presidential debate began on Wednesday with a conversation about the future of the Supreme Court.The next president will likely have the opportunity to shape the construction of the court - liberal or conservative - for the next few decades. <h2>Here are Donald Trump's potential Supreme Court nominees:</h2>1. Keith Blackwell2. Charles Canady3. Steven Colloton4. Allison Eid5. Neil Gorsuch6. Raymond Gruender7. Thomas Hardiman8. Raymond Kethledge9. Joan Larsen10. Mike Lee11. Thomas Lee12. Edward Mansfield13. Federico Moreno14. William Pryor15. Margaret A. Ryan16. Amul Thapar17. Timothy Tymkovich18. David Stras19. Diane Sykes20. Don Willett21. Robert Young <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-clinton-greg-norman-injury-monica-lewinsky-2016-9">Golf legend Greg Norman reveals the truth behind President Bill Clinton's late-night 1997 injury</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="11a2lwMzE6mpiitsJhlYjIRlUS7LKuIm" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

Here's Donald Trump's list of potential Supreme court nominees

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The death of <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword> Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has raised the stakes for the fate of the Supreme Court.</li><li>President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword> earlier this month announced 20 new names that he may nominate if he's reelected, in an effort to energize evangelicals and socially conservative voters.</li><li>Though Trump may put forth a pick before then because of the sudden vacancy created by the late Ginsburg.</li><li>Trump added Republican Sens. Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and Tom Cotton to his shortlist, though only Cotton expressed interest in the position after the announcement.</li><li>If Trump wins in 2020, he could appoint a sweeping conservative majority in his second term. </li><li>Here's a list of the contenders.</li></ul>The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Friday evening has raised the stakes for the fate of the Supreme Court.Ginsburg, who died at age 87 due to cancer-related complications, has created an empty seat on the bench, allowing President Donald Trump to put forth a new nominee. And Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mcconnell-confirms-senate-will-vote-on-ruth-bader-ginsburg-replacement-2020-9">already indicated</a> that he plans to consider a confirmation vote. The president has a roster of potential picks ready and unveiled 20 additions to his list on Sept. 9.While it's typical of any administration to keep a running shortlist of possible Supreme Court nominees, Trump's announcement, which included an array of conservative judges and lawyers as contenders — along with three Republican senators — sent a nod to conservative voters and may boost his 2020 bid, less than two months ahead of Election Day. During his 2016 campaign, Trump <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/18/donald-trump-supreme-court-picks-conservatives">released similar lists</a> that became key to rallying conservative support."Joe Biden has refused to release his list, perhaps because he knows the names are so extremely far left that they could never withstand public scrutiny or receive acceptance," Trump said during his announcement. "He must release a list of <keyword id="6901011" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Justices">justices</keyword> for people to properly make a decision as to how they will vote. It is very important that he do so."So far Trump has cemented a 5-4 conservative majority on the bench. He added Justices Neil Gorsuch in September 2017 and Brett Kavanaugh in July 2018.If the Senate confirms a new Trump nominee, he could tip the scale into a greater Republican-appointed majority at 6-3.And if Trump wins a second term, he may create an overwhelmingly conservative court at 7-2. It's likely that another vacancy may open up within the next four years, because of aging liberal justice Stephen Breyer, who turned 82 last month. The new contenders announced include:<ul><li>Bridget Bade, 54: Bade is a circuit judge of the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. She attended law school at Arizona State University and previously served as a magistrate judge on the US District Court for the District of Arizona.</li><li>Daniel Cameron, 34: Cameron was elected as attorney general of Kentucky in 2019. He previously served as legal counsel to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and worked in private practice before running for political office. Cameron has recently <a href="https://www.insider.com/felony-charges-dropped-against-breonna-taylor-protestors-in-kentucky-2020-7">faced criticism</a> for his handling of the Breonna Taylor case. He was a featured speaker at the 2020 Republican National Convention.</li><li>Paul Clement, 54: Clement served as US solicitor general from 2004 to 2008 under President George W. Bush. He also served as acting US attorney general in September 2007.</li><li>Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, 43: Cotton was first elected to the Senate in 2014, defeating Democratic incumbent Sen. Mark Pryor. He has compiled a staunchly conservative voting record over the past six years.</li><li>Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, 49: Cruz was elected to the Senate in 2010 as part of the Tea Party wave. He attended law school at Harvard and served as solicitor general of Texas before running for public office. In 2016, he sought the Republican presidential nomination.</li><li>Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, 40: Hawley graduated from Yale Law School and clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts. He was elected as attorney general of Missouri in 2016 before successfully running for Senate in 2018, defeating two-term Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.</li><li>Steven Engel, 46: Engel is the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. He has served in the administration since 2017.</li><li>Noel Francisco, 51: Francisco is a former US solicitor general. He was a staunch defender of the Trump administration's position to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.</li><li>James Ho: Ho is a circuit judge on the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. He clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas and served as chief counsel of the subcommittees on the Constitution and immigration under Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas.</li><li>Gregory Katsas, 56: Katsas has been a circuit judge for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since December 2017. He was previously a deputy White House counsel in the Trump administration.</li><li>Barbara Lagoa, 52: Lagoa is a circuit judge for the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. She graduated from Columbia Law School and was the first Hispanic woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court of Florida.</li><li>Christopher Landau, 56: Landau has been the US ambassador to Mexico since August 2019. He clerked for Supreme Court Justices Thomas and Antonin Scalia, later serving in private practice.</li><li>Carlos Muñiz, 51: Muñiz is a justice on the Florida Supreme Court, serving since January 2019. He previously served as general counsel of the US Department of Education.</li><li>Martha Pacold, 41: Pacold has been a district judge for the Northern District of Illinois since August 2019. </li><li>Peter Phipps, 47: Phipps, a graduate of Stanford Law School, is a circuit judge of the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. He was previously a judge of the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.</li><li>Sarah Pitlyk: Pitlyk is a judge for the Eastern District of Missouri. She graduated from Yale Law School and clerked for Kavanaugh during his tenure on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.</li><li>Lawrence VanDyke, 47: VanDyke is a circuit judge on the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. He previously served as solicitor general of both Montana and Nevada.</li><li>Allison Jones Rushing: Rushing, a member of the Federalist Society, has been a circuit judge on the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit since March 2019.</li><li>Kate Comerford Todd: Todd is a former senior vice president and chief counsel for the US Chamber Litigation Center. She graduated from Harvard Law School and clerked for Thomas.</li><li>Kyle Duncan, 48: Duncan is a US 5th Circuit judge, serving since May 2018 — part of the Trump administration's mass appointment of conservative judges to federal courts. During his Senate confirmation hearing, he was grilled by Democrats for how his religious beliefs could affect his rulings and afterward hailed by conservatives for securing the seat. He graduated with a law degree from Louisiana State University. </li></ul>The names add to previous lists of people under consideration, including:<ul><li>Raymond Kethledge, 51: Kethledge has served as a circuit judge of the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit since 2008 and was appointed by Bush. Kethledge had previously clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kethledge met with Trump as a finalist <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-begins-interviewing-supreme-court-candidates-as-political-fight-over-kennedy-replacement-intensifies/2018/07/02/ec435b7a-7e2d-11e8-b660-4d0f9f0351f1_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;_ga=2.80119767.1540587977.1599660431-334206346.15996604310431">for the Supreme Court seat before</a> that ultimately went to Kavanaugh.</li><li>Amul Thapar, 51: Thapar also serves on the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. He was a front-runner for the Supreme Court in both 2016 and 2018, when he was a US district judge. If selected this time, Thapar would make history as the first Asian American on the court.</li><li>Amy Coney Barrett, 48: Barrett, a hero to the religious right, also met with Trump as a top candidate for the court two years ago, thrilling conservatives. She graduated from Notre Dame University Law School and later returned to teach before being appointed to the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit in October 2017. </li><li>Andy Oldham, 42: Oldham also serves on the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, since July 2018. Previously, he was general counsel to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. He graduated from Harvard Law School and has clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. </li><li>Elizabeth Branch, 52: Branch has been a circuit judge of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit since March 2018. She had worked as a senior official in the George W. Bush administration and later as a judge for the Georgia Court of Appeals.</li><li>Mike Lee, 49: Lee is a Republican US senator from Utah who was elected in 2010. Since entering the Senate, he has compiled a mostly conservative voting record, with some streaks of libertarianism. After graduating from law school at Brigham Young University, Lee clerked for Alito, who at the time was a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. As a sitting lawmaker, he would be a more unconventional choice for the Supreme Court, but he'd likely attract some bipartisan support in a confirmation process.</li><li>Joan Larsen, 51: Larsen has been a circuit judge of the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, which covers Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, since 2017. She graduated at the top of her class at Northwestern University's law school and clerked for Judge David Sentelle of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Scalia. An Iowa native, she would add a rare Midwestern voice to the court.</li><li>Thomas Hardiman, 55: A <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-supreme-court-finalists-thomas-hardiman-lost-twice-brett-kavanaugh-2018-7">leading pick</a> for the two previous Supreme Court vacancies during the Trump presidency, Hardiman has been a judge of the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit since April 2007. He graduated from the Georgetown University Law Center and was an attorney in private practice before being nominated and confirmed to a judicial seat on the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, where he served from 2003 until joining the US Court of Appeals. As a federal judge, his votes have been decidedly conservative, with his opinions on gun-rights cases reflecting an originalist approach.</li><li>Britt Grant, 42: Grant is a judge of the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, where she has served since August 2018. While a student at Stanford Law School, she was a chapter president of the Federalist Society, the influential conservative legal organization. After law school, she clerked for Kavanaugh when he was a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Grant served as the solicitor general of Georgia from 2015 to 2017 before being appointed to a seat on the Supreme Court of Georgia. She was elevated to the 11th Circuit the next year.</li><li>Allison Eid, 55: Eid is a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. She graduated from the University of Chicago Law School and clerked for Thomas. From 2005 to 2006, she was solicitor general of Colorado, and then served as an associate justice on the Colorado Supreme Court from May 2006 to November 2017, when she joined the 10th Circuit.</li></ul>

Here are all of Trump's possible Supreme Court nominees, including several conservative judges, lawyers, and 3 senators

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">REUTERS/Rick WilkingDonald Trump pictured at the third presidential debate at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.</div></div></div>President-elect Donald Trump will likely have a huge role in shaping the composition of the Supreme Court for the next few decades. After Senate Republicans refused to hold a hearing for Merrick Garland - President Obama's choice to replace conservative Justice Antonin Scalia - Trump will likely have the opportunity to fill at least one seat on the country's highest court. Two liberal justices on the court, 78-year-old Stephen Breyer and 83-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg are also expected to retire soon.Trump has expressed support for highly-conservative justices in the past. He's said he wants to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark case giving women the right to abortions, and said that the Court needs to "uphold the Second Amendment."Trump's list of nominees contains some unusual choices, such as Utah Sen. Mike Lee. A spokesman for Lee <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-supreme-court-list-2016-9">told Politico</a> that "Sen. Lee already has the job he wants which is why he is campaigning to represent the great people of Utah again this year."<h2>Here are Donald Trump's potential Supreme Court nominees:</h2>1. <a href="http://www.gasupreme.us/court-information/biographies/justice-keith-r-blackwell/">Keith Blackwell</a>2. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_T._Canady">Charles Canady</a>3. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Colloton">Steven Colloton</a>4. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_H._Eid">Allison Eid</a>5. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gorsuch">Neil Gorsuch</a>6. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Gruender">Raymond Gruender</a>7. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardiman">Thomas Hardiman</a>8. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Kethledge">Raymond Kethledge</a>9. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Larsen">Joan Larsen</a>10. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Lee_(U.S._politician)">Mike Lee</a>11. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Rex_Lee">Thomas Lee</a>12. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mansfield_(judge)">Edward Mansfield</a>13. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_A._Moreno">Federico Moreno</a>14. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Pryor_Jr.">William Pryor</a>15. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_A._Ryan">Margaret A. Ryan</a>16. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amul_Roger_Thapar">Amul Thapar</a>17. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Tymkovich">Timothy Tymkovich</a>18. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Stras">David Stras</a>19. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_S._Sykes">Diane Sykes</a>20. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Willett">Don Willett</a>21. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_P._Young_Jr.">Robert Young</a> <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-clinton-release-final-closing-argument-ads-2016-11">Clinton and Trump's final ads perfectly explain how different they are</a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="wwdWNmNzE67s1cwhwlxz4dMtdHpLlYEs" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

Here's President-elect Donald Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">REUTERS/Lucas Jackson</div></div></div>Donald Trump has released the names of potential picks to fill the vacancy on the US Supreme Court.Trump on Wednesday whittled down a list of potential judges to replace former Justice Antonin Scalia, who died suddenly earlier this year.Trump's list includes:<ul><li>Steven Colloton, federal judge, US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Iowa)</li><li>Allison Eid, associate justice, Colorado Supreme Court</li><li>Raymond Gruender, federal judge, US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (Missouri)</li><li>Thomas Hardiman, federal judge, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Pennsylvania)</li><li>Raymond Kethledge, federal judge, US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (Michigan)</li><li>Joan Larsen, associate justice, Michigan Supreme Court</li><li>Thomas Lee, associate chief justice, Utah Supreme Court</li><li>William Pryor, federal judge, US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (Alabama)</li><li>David Stras, associate justice, Minnesota Supreme Court</li><li>Diane Sykes, federal judge, US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (Wisconsin)</li><li>Don Willett, associate justice, Texas Supreme Court</li></ul>"Justice Scalia was a remarkable person and a brilliant Supreme Court Justice. His career was defined by his reverence for the Constitution and his legacy of protecting Americans' most cherished freedoms. He was a Justice who did not believe in legislating from the bench and he is a person whom I held in the highest regard and will always greatly respect his intelligence and conviction to uphold the Constitution of our country," Trump said in a statement.He added: "The following list of potential Supreme Court justices is representative of the kind of constitutional principles I value and, as President, I plan to use this list as a guide to nominate our next United States Supreme Court Justices."President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to replace Scalia earlier this year, but Senate Republicans have refused to hold confirmation hearings, citing the desire to wait until after the election to appoint a new justice. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-describes-possible-running-mate-christie-walker-kasich-primary-vice-president-2016-5">Trump just dropped more hints about a possible running mate </a></h3> <div> <div> <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="dxcm9hMzE6eEnn_4nXk4JSd1hWOfUjJ_" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div> </div> </div> </div>

Here are the 11 people Donald Trump is considering for the US Supreme Court

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesMitch McConnell.</div></div></div><ul><li>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is picking up the pace of confirming President Donald Trump's judicial nominees.</li><li>He scheduled votes for four circuit court nominees next week.</li><li>McConnell and Trump have zeroed in on this issue in recent weeks.</li></ul> Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is ramping up the pace of confirmation for President Donald Trump's judicial nominees.On Thursday, McConnell announced votes that will take place next week for four of Trump's nominees to circuit courts, the second highest in the country and the final destination for the overwhelming majority of cases. Those nominees include Allison Eid for the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals, Stephanos Bibas for the 3rd Circuit, Joan Larsen for the 6th Circuit and Amy Coney Barrett for the 7th Circuit.<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-senate-confirm-judicial-nominees-2017-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Those announcements</a> came after one of Trump's nominees, Scott Palk, for the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, was confirmed on Thursday while another nominee, Trevor McFadden, nominated to the US District Court for the District of Columbia, is set for a vote early next week.That means six of Trump's nominees could be confirmed within a week - a breakneck pace."I think it's awful fast to move," Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/26/judicial-nominees-mitch-mcconnell-244210" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">told Politico</a>. "I think members have to read the writings, members have to take a look at their qualifications, members are leaving today. We found about it today, and it's on the floor next week."<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-senate-confirm-judicial-nominees-2017-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The increased pace</a> followed both McConnell and Trump complaining about the slow rate at which judicial nominees were being moved through the confirmation process. Those nominations are an area where Trump has, somewhat under the radar, worked to secure an early legacy in reshaping the federal judicial bench. The president was faced with an extraordinary number of vacancies on both district and circuit courts after former President Barack Obama's term.And he's moved quickly to nominate people for those posts, which number in excess of 140. In September, Trump <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-judge-us-attorney-nominations-list-2017-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">hit 65 combined nominations</a> between appeals courts, district courts, the US Tax Court, and the US Court of Federal Claims.<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-senate-confirm-judicial-nominees-2017-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">During a Cabinet meeting last week</a>, Trump criticized the pace of confirmation."They're waiting forever on line," he said. "It shouldn't happen that way. It's not right, it's not fair."Soon after, in an impromptu press conference with McConnell, Trump again complained about the slow pace of confirmation. He added that he will set records in terms of how many judges his administration will nominate and have confirmed, and called his administration's handling of the judicial vacancies on the federal bench one of the "unsung" victories of his term in office.Those comments came after McConnell <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mcconnell-blue-slips-trump-judicial-nominees-2017-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pushed</a> for the GOP to crush one of Democrats' biggest weapons in combating Trump's nominations to the federal bench.McConnell told <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/mitch-mcconnell-goes-to-the-mattresses-for-trumps-judicial-nominees/article/2010022" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Weekly Standard</a> that "blue slips" - a tradition that allows senators to give or withhold their blessing for a judicial nominee from their state - should be viewed as a confirmation of how a senator will vote on nominees, breaking with the norm of needing a blue-slip approval to move forward with a judicial nominee.The blue-slip process gives the party that does not control the White House leverage over the president's nominations, and some Democrats have used that power to deny a handful of Trump's nominees from moving forward in the Judiciary Committee. That, in turn, makes it easier for Trump to advance nominees in states that do not have any Democratic Senate representation.With Democrats now having the ability to, in many states, prevent Trump's judicial nominees from advancing, McConnell told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/us/politics/mcconnell-federal-judges-trump.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=0">The New York Times</a> last month that he thought the blue-slip practice should be scrapped for circuit-court nominations (though it would remain the same for other judicial nominees). That sparked backlash from <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-judges-blue-slip-democrats-2017-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Democrats</a>, who said the move would be hypocritical, as Republicans <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-judges-blue-slip-democrats-2017-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">staunchly defended</a> the blue-slip process while Obama was in office.McConnell pushed the issue again <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/conservative-groups-pressure-mcconnell-trump-judicial-nominees-2017-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">after Politico reported</a> he was receiving heat from influential outside conservative groups for the slow pace of confirmation of Trump's judicial nominees.Responding to Trump and McConnell's joint press conference last week, Feinstein said that Democrats were not obstructing the nominees."Republican obstruction of President Obama's nominees left more than 100 judicial vacancies on our federal courts," she noted. "President Trump and Leader McConnell are correct that the Republican effort to remake the federal judiciary and outsource the selection of nominees to right-wing groups like the Judicial Crisis Network is not getting the attention it deserves. Democrats are doing their due diligence in vetting the president's nominees. There's been no obstruction that justifies the effort to end the 100-year-old blue-slip process."Since that press conference last Monday, McConnell has repeatedly zeroed in on confirming the nominees. Earlier this week, he said Senate Republicans will not "let these mindless attempts to slow progress stop us from confirming the president's nominees to the judiciary.""If that means more cloture votes and more time focused on this task, that's what we'll do," he said in a statement. "But we will confirm these nominees. You can count on it."After McConnell announced the votes for the four nominees on Thursday, Carrie Severino, the Judicial Crisis Network's chief counsel and policy director, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/453160/we-will-confirm-these-nominees-you-can-count-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">wrote in the National Review</a> that the Kentucky Republican "demonstrated this afternoon he is quite serious about his promise" to confirm the nominees. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korean-defector-escapes-6000-miles-trek-on-crutches-2017-9">A North Korean defector trekked 6,000 miles on crutches to flee - now he helps others escape</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

McConnell is setting the stage for rapid-fire confirmation of Trump's judicial nominees

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image">Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty ImagesDonald Trump.</div></div></div>A whole heck of a lot happened this week in President Donald Trump's quest to reshape the federal judiciary.The ongoing effort turned particularly hot this week as Democratic senators <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/al-franken-minnesota-blue-slip-trump-judge-2017-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">moved to block</a> two of <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/07/democrats-prepare-to-block-trump-judicial-nominee-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">his circuit court nominations</a> while two of his other nominees to top courts <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/06/eric-dreiband-doj-civil-rights-nominee-questioning-242385" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">were grilled during a Capitol Hill hearing</a>.That hearing was followed up by Trump announcing his seventh wave of judicial nominees, an additional 15 names that are about to be submitted to the Senate, bringing the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-judges-attorneys-nominations-2017-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">total number of district and circuit court judges he's nominated to roughly 50</a> - <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-one-area-where-trump-has-been-wildly-successful/2017/07/19/56c5c7ee-6be7-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html?utm_term=.3a41ba04d0ab" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blowing far past the number of judicial nominations made</a> at this stage of a presidency by any recent predecessors. <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-judges-attorneys-nominations-2017-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">That's in part due to the massive number</a> of vacancies in the federal judiciary, which has swelled past 140.With all of those vacancies, "if we don't have an increased pace of confirmation, it's just totally unsustainable," Carrie Severino, the chief counsel of the Judicial Crisis Network, a group that has gone to bat to defend Trump's nominees with large ad buys.But the week began with one of those possible confirmations getting shut down before the candidate could even get the process, essentially, off the ground.Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota on Tuesday refused to sign off on Trump's nomination of Minnesota Supreme Court Judge David Stras for a vacancy on the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals. Franken said he could not support Stras, nominated by Trump in March, and would not be returning a blue slip to the Senate Judiciary Committee.That "blue slip" process is Senate tradition in which senators are able to give or withhold their blessing for a judicial nomination from their state. While not entirely uncommon for senators to deny a blue slip - several of President Barack Obama's judicial nominees met the same fate - Franken's move was just the first of three refusals from Democratic senators this week.On Thursday, Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden of Oregon announced that they will block a judicial nominee for the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals who had been announced as Trump's pick just earlier that day. The duo said in a letter to the White House that they would not be providing blue slips for Ryan Bounds, an assistant US attorney in Oregon, because he had not been approved by a bipartisan judicial selection committee in their state."Unfortunately, it is now apparent that you never intended to allow our longstanding process to play out," the Democratic senators wrote to White House counsel Donald McGahn in the letter, <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/07/democrats-prepare-to-block-trump-judicial-nominee-0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">obtained by Politico</a>. The pair later added, "The judicial selection process is not a rubber stamp, and the insinuation that our offices were purposely delaying the process is an indication of the partisanship with which you are pursuing this nomination."Franken, Merkley, and Wyden's moves to refuse blue slips emphasized what is the biggest roadblock for Trump as he tries to remake the courts - landing Democratic support for his judicial nominees in the roughly 30 states with at least one Democratic senator. While his nominees have received blue slips from Democratic senators in Colorado, Michigan, and Indiana, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-judges-attorneys-nominations-2017-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trump has mostly avoided naming judicial nominees</a> for district and circuit courts from states represented by at least one Democrat.While the denial of a blue slip does not legally restrict a judge from being approved, Glenn Sugameli, <a href="https://www.acslaw.org/acsblog/all/glenn-sugameli">an attorney who is an expert on judicial nominations</a>, told Business Insider in an email earlier this week that "no circuit court nominees have been confirmed over objection of one (or two) home state senators - including under Obama."Roughly 80% of his nearly 50 nominations to such courts are from states that are represented by two Republican senators. Just five nominees hail from states with two Democratic senators.At the same point in his presidency back in 2009, Obama had nominated nine people for vacant district court seats and seven candidates for circuit court openings. Of those, 56% were from states represented by two Democratic senators - meaning 44% faced the scrutiny of at least one member of the opposition party before they could be advanced in the Senate.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesAl Franken.</div></div></div>The intent of the blue-slip process is to have a more bipartisan consensus on judges who will serve in or represent a senator's home state when the president is of the opposition party, encouraging communication between the White House and home-state senators before a nomination.Some conservatives were angered by the trio of Democratic senators moving to block the nominees. Severino said the practice "is not something" Democrats "can be allowed to abuse," adding that it is not longstanding tradition for the refusal of a blue slip to mean a nominee cannot move forward.Democrats "are trying to create a filibuster of one," she added.The blue slip refusal by a home-state senator is virtually all the leverage Democrats have in the process, with Republicans controlling the majority in the Senate. Republicans need just a simple 51-vote total to confirm a judicial nominee after the filibuster on lower-level court judicial nominees was killed by Democrats when they last controlled the Senate in an effort to help move along some of Obama's nominees more quickly.Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond professor and expert on judicial nominations, said that when it comes to a discussion of the blue-slip process, there's a "double standard" that is "inappropriate.""If you look back at the last eight years of what Republican senators did, there is plenty of bad behavior which is much worse than what Franken did the other day," Tobias said hours before the Oregon senators announced their intention to block Trump's nominee to the 9th Circuit. "I don't think the Republicans have a lot to complain about."But he added that "there is going to be a lot of pressure on" Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley "to change the blue-slip policy."The blocking of two Trump nominees superseded what was an uncommonly stacked hearing before Grassley's committee this week. The hearing featured two of Trump's circuit court nominees, two district court nominees, and a nominee to be assistant attorney general.It also featured a few fireworks. 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame <keyword id="6355470" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="law">law</keyword> professor, was questioned intensely about her Catholic faith as a result of past writings <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/09/catholics-senate-amy-barrett/539124/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">expressing her beliefs on whether Catholic judges</a> should recuse themselves from death-penalty cases if they believed they would be unable to impartially uphold the law, writing that - in limited situations - judges should step back in cases that conflict with their personal conscience.Barrett did make clear in the paper that "judges cannot - nor should they try to - align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge."The relationship between views on the death penalty and abortion - both issues in which Catholic teachings and US law are not in alignment - were zeroed in on by the panel.Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the Judiciary Committee's top-ranking Democrat, <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/senate-democrats-grill-two-trump-judicial-nominees/article/2633526" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">said Barrett's nomination</a> was "controversial.""When you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you, and that's of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for, for years in this country," Feinstein said.Barrett, for her part, said she would "never impose my own personal convictions on the law."Severino, the chief counsel of the conservative Judicial Crisis Network, called Feinstein's line of questioning "anti-Catholic" and "wrongheaded on so many levels," adding that there are "no religious tests" for such positions in the US.Tobias said he did not believe the hearing went particularly well, noting that he thought some questions were "close to the line, especially about religion."He also took issue with the size of the hearing, adding that Michigan Supreme Court Judge Joan Larsen, nominated for the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals, "got off fairly easy" with Barrett taking most of the heat.Tobias was critical of Grassley's scheduling of the hearing, saying that having so many nominees come before it at once is "overloading" the committee, which in turn causes the hearings to "become meaningless."Grassley addressed the controversy ahead of the hearing <a href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/09-06-17%20Grassley%20Statement.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">in a statement</a>, saying that the large contingency was a result of having lost a hearing in August."Of course, I aim to be fair in the process and made sure the other side had ample time to review these nominees' qualifications," Grassley said. "We've had Professor Barrett's materials for 120 days and Justice Larsen's materials for 96 days. I believe this is more than enough time to thoroughly review these nominees' materials."He said it's "nothing new" to hold a hearing with multiple circuit court nominees, something Tobias disputed and said the Republicans were underselling. The professor said it happened only a handful of times during Obama's time in office, and only then with the Republican minority on board.The wild week is almost certain to see similar iterations in the coming weeks and months with Trump's impressive number of early nominations to the federal bench.As Severino said, part of the reason Trump has sought to move so quickly is because of the sheer number of vacancies. But another is a result of the focus on the judiciary in the past election, with the outsized campaign around replacing Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia particularly sticking out."This election was more about the courts than any in my memory," she said. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-touts-1986-tax-law-called-same-law-disaster-1991-video-footage-joan-rivers-2017-8">Trump touts the 1986 US tax reform law as 'something special' - here's footage of him calling it a 'disaster' in 1991</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

'The dogma lives loudly within you': The battle over Trump's effort to remake the courts in his image is starting to heat up

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">Reuters/Eric ThayerMitch McConnell.</div></div></div><ul><li>Republicans just confirmed a bunch of circuit court judges last week.</li><li>One expert said such a week only occurred twice over the three prior administrations.</li><li>Democrats blasted the rapid-fire process.</li></ul> While the first week of November was a banner time for special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and the Republicans' proposal to cut taxes, an item that could affect the nation for decades flew under the radar.Last week, Senate Republicans were able to confirm four of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees for lifetime positions on circuit courts, in addition to one more to a district court post as a part of the president's unprecedented judicial blitz.Those who were confirmed included Michigan Supreme Court Judge Joan Larsen to serve on the US 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, conservative Notre Dame <keyword id="6355470" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Law">law</keyword> professor Amy Coney Barrett to serve on the US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, University of Pennsylvania law professor Stephanos Bibas to the US 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, Colorado Supreme Court Judge Allison Eid to the US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, and attorney Trevor McFadden to serve on the US District Court for the District of Columbia.Seizing an opportunity to move forward on reshaping the federal court system to a more conservative bend, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell worked to confirm the judges in rapid-fire succession, in a week that experts said was incredibly rare and drew the ire of Democrats who believe Republicans are being hypocritical in the confirmation process and not providing ample time to vet the candidates.<h2>A week like that only happened twice in the past three administrations</h2>Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond law professor and expert on judicial nominations, told Business Insider in an email that four such confirmations to circuit courts in a single week is "very rare.""That never happened in President George W. Bush's eight years, and the most confirmed in any week was three," he said. "It only happened once in [President Barack] Obama's eight years, and that was an unusual circumstance. ... It also happened only once in [President Bill] Clinton's eight years."He added that he expects and hopes that the process "will return to a more normal pace and that the customs and traditions of the Senate will be restored and honored.""Despite the GOP call for 'regular order,' it has not respected many customs, which has a corrosive effect on collegiality and the institution," he said.The fast rate of judicial confirmations comes as McConnell has <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mcconnell-blue-slips-trump-judicial-nominees-2017-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pushed</a> for the GOP to crush one of Democrats' biggest weapons in combating Trump's nominations to the federal bench.McConnell told <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/mitch-mcconnell-goes-to-the-mattresses-for-trumps-judicial-nominees/article/2010022" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">has said</a> that "blue slips" - a tradition that allows senators to give or withhold their blessing for a judicial nominee from their state - should be viewed as a confirmation of how a senator will vote on nominees, breaking with the norm of needing a blue-slip approval to move forward with a judicial nominee.The blue-slip process gives the party that does not control the White House leverage over the president's nominations, and some Democrats have used that power to deny a handful of Trump's nominees from moving forward in the Judiciary Committee. That, in turn, makes it easier for Trump to advance nominees in states that do not have any Democratic Senate representation.<h2>'The hypocrisy we're seeing on display is stunning'</h2>Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called the rapid-fire confirmations "irresponsible," and added that Republicans were seeking to stack the courts in hopes of having certain important decisions that were not decided the way they preferred overturned or altered."Consider how many Trump actions have or will see time in the courtroom, and you begin to understand why Republicans are rushing to fill these vacancies - after allowing countless vacancies to remain unfilled at the end of the last administration," the California Democrat said in a statement. "In each of the following cases, the president and Senate Republicans seem to hope that the outcome will be different with a transformed judiciary."She lamented the fact that Republicans are "now rushing" to fill these vacancies "after spending years blocking President Obama from filling many of these same vacancies. It actually is the most egregious effort I have ever seen.""The hypocrisy we're seeing on display is stunning," she said.Meanwhile, McConnell's maneuvering drew praise from both Trump and the White House."We appreciate the hard work of" Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and McConnell, "and we urge the Senate to confirm all of the remaining nominees because it's what the American people deserve," White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley told Business Insider in an email.<h2>Trump says 'thanks'</h2>Trump praised McConnell for his week of work on the judicial nominations earlier in the week."Thanks to @SenateMajLdr McConnell and the @SenateGOP we are appointing high-quality Federal District ... and Appeals Court Judges at a record clip!" <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/925845735089889280" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">he said</a> in the first of <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/925845770724618240" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">two tweets</a>. "Our courts are rapidly changing for the better!"<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-senate-confirm-judicial-nominees-2017-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The increased pace</a> of confirmation followed both McConnell and Trump complaining about the slow rate at which judicial nominees were being moved through the confirmation process. Those nominations are an area in which Trump has, somewhat under the radar, worked to secure an early legacy in reshaping the federal judicial bench. The president was faced with an extraordinary number of vacancies on both district and circuit courts after Obama's term.And he has moved quickly to nominate people for those posts, which totaled in excess of 140 earlier in his term. In September, Trump <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-judge-us-attorney-nominations-list-2017-9" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">hit 65 combined nominations</a> between appeals courts, district courts, the US Tax Court, and the US Court of Federal Claims.<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-senate-confirm-judicial-nominees-2017-10" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Last month</a>, Trump criticized the pace of confirmation during a Cabinet meeting."They're waiting forever on line," he said. "It shouldn't happen that way. It's not right, it's not fair." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korean-defector-escapes-6000-miles-trek-on-crutches-2017-9">A North Korean defector trekked 6,000 miles on crutches to flee - now he helps others escape</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

McConnell just got a bunch of Trump's judicial nominees confirmed in one week

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People are freaking out after the hottest new bag's restock was delayed today

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image">Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Tony Awards ProductionsHigh Jackman crashed this morning's nominations.</div></div></div>The 2014 <a href="http://www.tonyawards.com/index.html" target="_blank">Tony Awards nominations</a> were announced on Tuesday morning by actors Lucy Liu and Jonathan Groff, with Hugh Jackman crashing the ceremony.
A few TV stars were nominated, including Bryan Cranston for "All The Way" and Neil Patrick Harris for "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."
"A Gentleman's Guide to Love &amp; Murder" leads the pack with 10 nods, followed by "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" with 8 nominations.
The Tonys will air on June 8 on CBS.
Check out the list of nominees below:
Best Play
Act One All the Way Casa Valentina Mothers and Sons Outside Mullingar
Best Musical
After Midnight Aladdin Beautiful A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Best Revival of a Play
The Cripple of Inishmaan The Glass Menagerie A Raisin in the Sun Twelfth Night
Best Revival of a Musical
Hedwig and the Angry Inch Les Miserables Violet
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Samuel Barnett- Twelfth Night Bryan Cranston- All the Way Chris O'Dowd- Of Mice and Men Mark Rylance- Richard III Tony Shalhoub- Act One
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Audra McDonald- Lady Day at Emerson's Bar &amp; Gril Tyne Daly- Mothers and Sons Estelle Parsons- The Velocity of Autumn LaTanya Richardson Jackson- A Raisin in the Sun Cherry Jones- The Glass Menagerie
<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image">Mike Pont/Getty ImagesNeil Patrick Harris, who stars in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," is nominated for Best Actor in a Musical.</div></div></div>
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Ramin Karimloo- Les Miserables Neil Patrick Harris- Hedwig and the Angry Inch Jefferson Mays- A Gentleman's Guide to Love &amp; Murder Bryce Pinkham- A Gentleman's Guide to Love &amp; Murder Andy Karl- Rocky
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Idina Menzel- If/Then Mary Bridget Davis - A Night with Janice Joplin Jessie Mueller- Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Kelli O'Hara- The Bridges of Madison County Sutton Foster- Violet
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play Reed Birney- Casa Valentina Paul Chahidi- Twelfth Night Stephen Fry- Twelfth Night Mark Rylance- Twelfth Night Brian Jacob Smith- The Glass Menagier
Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play Sarah Green- The Cripple of Inishmaan Celia Keenan-Bolger- The Glass Menagerie Sophie Okonedo- A Raisin in the Sun Mare Winningham- Casa Valentina Anika Noni Rose- A Raisin in the Sun
Best Book of a Musical
Chad Beguelin - Aladdin Douglas McGrath - Beautiful Woody Allen - Bullets Over Broadway Robert L Freedman - A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Best Score
Jason Robert Brown- The Bridges of Madison County Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey- If/Then Steven Lutvak and Robert L. Freedman- A Gentleman's Guide to Love &amp; Murder Alan Menken and Chad Beguelin- Aladdin
Best Director of a Musical Warren Carlyle- After Midnight Michael Mayer- Hedwig and the Angry Inch Leigh Silverman- Violet Darko Tresnjak- A Gentleman's Guide to Love &amp; Murder
Best Director of a Play Tim Carroll- Twelfth Night Michael Grandage- The Cripple of Inishmaan Kenny Leon- A Raisin in the Sun John Tiffany- The Glass Menagerie
Best Book of a Musical
Aladdin- Chad Beguelin Beautiful - The Carole King Musical - Douglas McGrath Bullets Over Broadway- Woody Allen A Gentleman's Guide to Love &amp; Murder- Robert L. Freedman
Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre
Aladdin- Music: Alan Menken, Lyrics: Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin The Bridges of Madison County- Music &amp; Lyrics: Jason Robert Brown A Gentleman's Guide to Love &amp; Murder- Music: Steven Lutvak, Lyrics: Robert L. Freedman &amp; Steven Lutvak If/Then- Music: Tom Kitt, Lyrics: Brian Yorkey Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Samuel Barnett, Twelfth Night Bryan Cranston, All The Way Chris O'Dowd, Of Mice and Men Mark Rylance, Richard III Tony Shalhoub, Act One Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Tyne Daly, Mothers and Sons LaTanya Richardson Jackson, A Raisin in the Sun Cherry Jones, The Glass Menagerie Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar &amp; Grill Estelle Parsons, The Velocity of Autumn Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Neil Patrick Harris, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Ramin Karimloo, LES MISERABLES Andy Karl, Rocky Jefferson Mays, A Gentleman's Guide to Love &amp; Murder Bryce Pinkham, A Gentleman's Guide to Love &amp; Murder Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Mary Bridget Davies, A Night with Janis Joplin Sutton Foster, Violet Idina Menzel, If/Then Jessie Mueller, Beautiful - The Carole King Musical Kelli O'Hara, The Bridges of Madison County Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Reed Birney, Casa Valentina Paul Chahidi, Twelfth Night Stephen Fry, Twelfth Night Mark Rylance, Twelfth Night Brian J. Smith, The Glass Menagerie Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Sarah Greene, The Cripple of Inishmaan Celia Keenan-Bolger, The Glass Menagerie Sophie Okonedo, A Raisin in the Sun Anika Noni Rose, A Raisin in the Sun Mare Winningham, Casa Valentina Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Danny Burstein, Cabaret Nick Cordero, Bullets Over Broadway Joshua Henry, Violet James Monroe Iglehart, Aladdin Jarrod Spector, Beautiful - The Carole King Musical Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Linda Emond, Cabaret Lena Hall, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Anika Larsen, Beautiful - The Carole King Musical Adriane Lenox, After Midnight Lauren Worsham, A Gentleman's Guide to Love &amp; Murder Best Scenic Design of a Play
Beowulf Boritt, Act One Bob Crowley, The Glass Menagerie Es Devlin, Machinal Christopher Oram, The Cripple of Inishmaan Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Christopher Barreca, Rocky Julian Crouch, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Alexander Dodge, A Gentleman's Guide to Love &amp; Murder Santo Loquasto, Bullets Over Broadway Best Costume Design of a Play
Jane Greenwood, Act One Michael Krass, Machinal Rita Ryack, Casa Valentina Jenny Tiramani, Twelfth Night Best Costume Design of a Musical
Linda Cho, A Gentleman's Guide to Love &amp; Murder William Ivey Long, Bullets Over Broadway Arianne Phillips, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Isabel Toledo, After Midnight Best Lighting Design of a Play
Paule Constable, The Cripple of Inishmaan Jane Cox, Machinal Natasha Katz, The Glass Menagerie Japhy Weideman, Of Mice and Men Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Kevin Adams, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Christopher Akerlind, Rocky Howell Binkley, After Midnight Donald Holder, The Bridges of Madison County Best Sound Design of a Play
Alex Baranowski, The Cripple of Inishmaan Steve Canyon Kennedy, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar &amp; Grill Dan Moses Schreier, Act One Matt Tierney, Machinal Best Sound Design of a Musical
Peter Hylenski, After Midnight Tim O'Heir, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Mick Potter, LES MISERABLES Brian Ronan, Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
Best Direction of a Play
Tim Carroll, Twelfth Night Michael Grandage, The Cripple of Inishmaan Kenny Leon, A Raisin in the Sun John Tiffany, The Glass Menagerie Best Direction of a Musical
Warren Carlyle, After Midnight Michael Mayer, Hedwig and the Angry Inch Leigh Silverman, Violet Darko Tresnjak, A Gentleman's Guide to Love &amp; Murder Best Choreography
Warren Carlyle, After Midnight Steven Hoggett &amp; Kelly Devine, Rocky Casey Nicholaw, Aladdin
Susan Stroman, Bullets Over Broadway
Best Orchestrations
Doug Besterman, Bullets Over Broadway Jason Robert Brown, The Bridges of Madison County Steve Sidwell, Beautiful - The Carole King Musical Jonathan Tunick, A Gentleman's Guide to Love &amp; Murder
Recipients of Awards and Honors in Non-competitive Categories
Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre - Jane Greenwood
Regional Theatre Award - Signature Theatre, New York, N.Y.
Isabelle Stevenson Award - Rosie O'Donnell
Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre - Joseph P. Benincasa, Joan Marcus, Charlotte Wilcox

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