TX Justice Willett's Excellent SCOTUS Adventure

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By Mark Curriden
(Feb. 2) — Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett did not get President Trump’s nod to be on the U.S. Supreme Court, but he made the short list and he got to meet the new president to discuss the job with him.

“I did have the privilege of meeting with President Trump’s team, but I’d like to respect the confidentiality of their process and remain discreet,” Justice Willett told The Texas Lawbook in an email. “Believe me, for someone raised by a widowed waitress in a drafty double-wide in a town of 32 people, it was an otherworldly honor.”
In the minutes following the president’s announcement that he had chosen federal appeals court Judge Gorsuch as his nominee for the opening on the nation’s highest court, Justice Willett sent out a message on the Twitter describing Gorsuch as a “magnificent choice.” He wrote that, “Our Constitution and Rule of Law have a fierce champion in Judge Gorsuch.”
Justice Willett said he has never met Judge Gorsuch but he has heard him speak.
“He was what America saw last night: a brilliant, thoughtful, engaging jurist with a surpassing devotion to the Rule of Law,” he said.
As a PS, Justice Willett wrote that his 10-year-old had the “keenest insight.”
“Daddy, did you say ‘no’ because they don’t serve Dr Pepper in the Supreme Court cafeteria?”

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