Ga. Supreme Court Justices Grant, Blackwell on Trump's SCOTUS List
Rising star Britt Grant, on track to become the newest member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, has been added to Trump's list of possible U.S. Supreme Court candidates. The list includes Grant mentor Judge Brett Kavanaugh of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Washington and her fellow Georgia Supreme Court Justice, Keith Blackwell.
June 28, 2018 at 06:33 PM
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Britt Grant and Keith Blackwell. Two Georgia Supreme Court justices—Britt Grant and Keith Blackwell—are on President Donald Trump's list of possible U.S. Supreme Court nominees. Last year, Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal appointed Grant , then state s olicitor general, to the Georgia Supreme Court. After less than four months on Georgia's highest court, Trump nominated Grant to the Eleventh Circuit last April. was on the original list of possible candidates offered to Trump when he was running for president. That list was compiled by The Federalist Society and The Heritage Foundation to suggest th Circuit to the U.S. Supreme Court,” Olens added. “I would assume she would do another round of interviews for the U.S. Supreme Court. But by definition, it would be a speedier process.” Last month, Grant sailed through her Senate confirmation hearing where she was introduced by Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Georgia. Grant had interned for Isakson when he was member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Grant was accompanied by her husband, who formerly worked for the CIA. Cabinet Affairs. Grant was working in the White House on Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked the Pentagon and destroyed the World Trade Center in New York. In recounting that experience to The Daily Report when the newspaper named her as one of its 2014 Rising Stars, Grant said the attack instilled in her a mission to make government “as effective as it can be and as protective of liberty as it can be.” fraud investigation During her short tenure on Georgia's Supreme Court Grant tackled two of the state's highest-profile appeals. Last year, Grant wrote the majority opinion reinstating a $35 million verdict in a personal injury case against Six Flags Over Georgia . In March of this year, she wrote a unanimous opinion upholding a $40 million judgment against FCA Chrysler for the family of a 4-year-old who was burned to death in a Jeep after the gas tank exploded following a rear-end collision. Blackwell—like Grant a member of The Federalist Society—was 36 when Gov. Sonny Perdue, now secretary of Agriculture—appointed him to the Georgia Court of Appeals in 2010. Active in politics, Blackwell was a volunteer lawyer for the state Republican Party who organized Lawyers for Deal when Deal decided to run for governor. In 2008, Blackwell was a member of John McCain's state steering committee when McCain made his unsuccessful run for president. A partner at Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs in Atlanta when Perdue tapped him for the state appellate court, Blackwell was also one of a team of attorneys Perdue appointed to challenge the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's signature legislation—the Patient Affordable Care Act. Two years later, Deal elevated Blackwell to the state Supreme Court after Blackwell chaired Lawyers for Deal during Deal's 2010 campaign for governor.
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