In the dozen days since Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, there had been much speculation, jockeying and open infighting among conservatives over whom President Donald Trump should pick to succeed Kennedy on the U.S. Supreme Court.

But on Monday night in the White House, where the president would deliver his announcement in primetime to a national audience, there was little sign of that drama.

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