The Next SCOTUS Will Be Exceptional Trump Promises!

President Trump said Sunday that he was “close to making a decision” about who he would nominate to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy a little more than 24 hours before he was scheduled to announce his choice in a primetime address Monday.

“I'm very close to making a final decision. And I believe this person will do a great job,” Trump told reports as he left for Washington from a weekend at his New Jersey golf club.

When asked how many people were being considered, the president said: “Let's say it's the four people … they're excellent, every one. You can't go wrong.” Trump added that he would make his final decision “tonight or tomorrow sometime by 12 o'clock and we're all gonna be meeting at nine o'clock.”

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Later Sunday, Trump tweeted that he was “[l]ooking forward to announcing my final decision on the United States Supreme Court Justice at 9:00pmE tomorrow night at the @WhiteHouse. An exceptional person will be chosen!”

The Trump administration has been preparing information materials on four potential nominees: appeals court judges Brett Kavanaugh, Raymond Kethledge, Amy Coney Barrett, and Thomas Hardiman.