A Prayer Guide for the potential nominees for Supreme Court

Praying for all those in authority is a command by the Lord as instruct- ed in 1 Timothy 2:1-2. As new leaders are appointed, we are compelled by Scripture to pray for them. This is the goal of Pray for America’s Leaders.

The Supreme Court will make decisions on many critical issues as in past years such as Roe v. Wade and the Obergefell same-sex Keith Blackwell Charles Canady marriage decision. The Keith Blackwell is a Charles Canady is a appointment to the Supreme Court by justice of the Supreme Court justice of the Supreme Trump is paramount to of Georgia. He has served in Court of Florida. He has the preservation of the this position since 2012. He served in this role since U.S. Constitution and our religious freedoms. previously served on the 2008, and served as Please join us in praying Georgia Court of Appeals. Before serving on the the court's Chief Justice from 2010 to 2012. for each nominee who is bench, Justice Blackwell was a Deputy Special Prior to his appointment, Justice Canady being considered. Attorney General of the State of Georgia, an served as a judge of the Florida Second PRAY that all nominees Assistant District Attorney in Cobb County, and District Court of Appeal and as a member of will have humility, know a commercial litigator in private practice. Justice the United States House of Representatives their inadequacies, and seek the will of God Blackwell is a graduate of the University of for four terms. Justice Canady is a graduate (Proverbs 3:5-8). Georgia School of Law. of .

Neil Gorsuch Mike Lee PRAY that all will fear the LORD and that God Neil Gorsuch is a federal Mike Lee is the junior will be glorified through judge on the U.S. Court of U.S. Senator from Utah. their decisions and actions (Proverbs 9:10). Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He currently serves on He was appointed to this role the Senate Judiciary Check the box beside in 2006. Judge Gorsuch previ- Committee. He previously each name when you have prayed for that ously served in the Justice Department as a Dep- served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Utah person. uty Assistant Attorney General from 2005 to and as a Supreme Court Clerk for Justice 2006. Judge Gorsuch was a Marshall Scholar Alito. Senator Lee received his law degree and received his law degree from Harvard. from Brigham Young University.

1 Edward Mansfield Edward Mansfield is Amul Thapar is a federal a justice on the Iowa judge of the U.S. District Court Supreme Court. He was for the Eastern District of appointed to the court in Kentucky. Judge Thapar 2011 and retained by previously served as an voters in 2012. Justice Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Ted Cruz Mansfield previously served as a judge of the Southern District of Ohio and was the U.S. Attorney Ted Cruz is the junior Iowa Court of Appeals. He also teaches law at for the Eastern District of Kentucky. Judge Thapar U.S. Senator from Texas and Drake University as an adjunct professor. Justice received his law degree from the University of was a 2016 Republican presi- Mansfield is a graduate of Yale Law School. California, Berkeley. dential candidate. He is a noted Constitutionalist. While Federico Moreno Senator Cruz is not on Federico Moreno is a Timothy Tymkovich is Trump’s nominee list, he judge of the United States the Chief Judge of the United could be a wildcard selection District Court for the South- States Court of Appeals for and option for President-elect ern District of Florida and a the Tenth Circuit. He was . After law member of the Judicial appointed to the bench in school, Senator Cruz worked Conference of the United 2003, and he previously as a law clerk for several States. He also served as a state and county served as Colorado Solicitor General. Judge judges, including Supreme court judge in Florida. Judge Moreno is a gradu- Tymkovich is a graduate of the University of Court Justice William ate of the University of Miami School of Law. Colorado College of Law. Rehnquist from 1996 to 1997.

He also served as an Associ- Margaret Ryan Robert Young ate Deputy Attorney General Margaret Ryan has Robert Young is the at the Department of Justice been a judge of the U.S. Chief Justice of the Michigan and was Solicitor General of Court of Appeals for the Supreme Court. He was Texas. Senator Cruz is a Armed Forces since 2006. appointed to the court in 1999, graduate of Harvard Law Judge Ryan served in the and became part of a majority School. Marine Corps through of justices who embraced deployments in the Philippines and the Gulf War. originalism and led what one scholar described as She clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas. Judge a "textualism revolution." Justice Young previously Ryan graduated from Notre Dame Law School served as a judge on the Michigan Court of through a military scholarship and served as a Appeals. Chief Justice Young is a graduate of JAG officer for four years. Harvard Law School. 2 Mr. Trump stated, “We have a very clear choice in this election. The freedoms we cherish and the constitutional values and principles our country was founded on are in jeopardy. The responsibility is greater than ever to pro- tect and uphold these freedoms and I will appoint justices who, like Justice Scalia, will protect our liberty with the Diane Sykes highest regard for the Constitution. This list is definitive and I will choose only from it in picking future Justices of the United States Supreme Court. I would like to thank the Federalist Society, The Heritage Foundation and the Diane Sykes is a federal many other individuals who helped in composing this list of twenty-one highly respected people who are the kind judge of the United States of scholars that we need to preserve the very core of our country, and make it greater than ever before.” Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She has Steven Colloton is a Raymond Gruender is served in this position since federal judge on the Eighth a federal judge on the Eighth her confirmation in 2004. Circuit Court of Appeals. He Circuit Court of Appeals. He Prior to this appointment, was appointed to the court has served in this role since Sykes served as a Justice on in 2003. He also served as 2004. Formerly, he was in the Wisconsin Supreme a U.S. Attorney for the private practice, and from Court for five years. She is Southern District of Iowa and a Special Assistant 2001 to 2004 served as United States Attorney for one of Trump’s front-runners to the Attorney General. Colloton clerked for the Eastern District of . Judge Gruender for the position of Supreme Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist. Judge graduated with three degrees from Washington Court Justice. Judge Sykes is Colloton is a graduate of Yale Law School. University in St. Louis, Missouri. a graduate of Northwestern University and received her Allison Eid law degree from Marquette Allison Eid is a justice Thomas Hardiman is a University Law School. with the Colorado Supreme federal judge on the Third Court. She served as Circuit Court of Appeals. His Solicitor General for the confirmation was in 2007. He State of Colorado before was in private practice in being appointed to the Washington, D.C and Colorado Supreme Court in 2005. After law Pittsburg prior to his appointment in 2003 as a school, she clerked for several notable justices, judge of the United States District Court for the including Supreme Court Justice Clarence Western District of Pennsylvania. Judge Hardiman Thomas. Justice Eid is a graduate of the is a graduate of University of Notre Dame and University of Chicago Law School. Georgetown University Law Center. 3

Raymond Kethledge is a David Stras is a justice federal judge for the Sixth on the Minnesota Supreme Circuit Court of Appeals. He Court. He has served in this has served in this role since role since 2010. He clerked 2008. He clerked for Supreme on two federal courts of William Pryor, Jr. Court Justice Kennedy, appeal, after which he William Pryor, Jr. is a served as guest lecturer at University of Michigan, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence federal judge for the U.S. and had a private practice. Judge Kethledge Thomas. Justice Stras received his education Court of Appeals for the received his law degree from Wayne State from University of Kansas and his law degree Eleventh Circuit. He has University Law School. from University of Kansas School of Law. served in this role since his confirmation in 2004, and also is a Commissioner on Joan Larsen is a justice on Don Willett is a justice the U.S. Sentencing Com- the Michigan Supreme Court. on the Supreme Court of mission. He served as the She has served in this role Texas. He served as Texas Attorney General for the since 2015. She also served Deputy Attorney General State of Alabama. Judge with the Justice Department as and as Justice Department Pryor is considered among an Assistant Attorney General Deputy Assistant Attorney the leading choices for for Legal Counsel. Justice Larsen graduated from General, Office of Legal Policy. Justice Willett is a Supreme Court Justice by Northwestern University Law School. graduate of Duke University Law School. President-elect Donald Trump. He graduated from Thomas Lee Source: the University of Louisiana Thomas Lee, brother of DonaldJTrump.com at Monroe and Tulane Utah Senator Mike Lee, is a University Law School. justice on the Utah Supreme Court. He has served in this position since 2010. Justice Lee has clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He is a graduate of This special report is a publication of Intercessors for America. Brigham Young University and served there as a P.O. Box 915, Purcellville VA 20134 faculty member at J. Reuben Clark Law School. 1-800-USA-PRAY (872-7729) Justice Lee received his law degree from To learn more, visit us at IFApray.org University of Chicago Law School. or PrayforAmericasLeaders.com 4