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Sunday December 18, 2016
No. 70 of the 128th Year
Fifty Cents Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma USPS No. 295-420
Cimarron expects growth , gets prepared
[See Boomtown Page 14]
The cold that triedto steal Christmas
Thanks to frigid temperatures and wind chills slip-ping into the negatives predicted for Saturday night, Kingfisher Chamber of Commerce decided to cancel its nighttime Christmas parade and fireworks display for the safety of both participants and attendees.
(Really, would you want to press your lips against an ice-cold trombone mouthpiece?)
But fortunately, two other cozier holiday events are available if you’re reading this before Saturday night.
Dover is still holding its (mostly) indoor Christ-mas Festival beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday at Town Hall and the school cafeteria.
And Chisholm Trail Museum is hosting a free “Merry Vintage Christmas” at the museum, Seay Man-sion and the Pioneer Village, with sweet treats, crafts for kids, handouts and historical re-enactors bringing Teddy Roosevelt, Isabella Seay Collins, Santa Claus and St. Nicholas to life for the entire family.
And you can still get your Christmas lights fix by visiting Kingfisher Winter Nights beginning at 6 p.m. at Kingfisher Park. You can tour the displays from the warmth of your car and if the weather’s not too bad, the enclosed heated train might also be in operation.
ELVES AT WORK — Members of LifeWay Church in Kingfisher are filling more than 100 boxes with the makings of a tasty Christmas dinner to distribute Sunday to area residents. In front, Joy Ludwig juggles stuffing boxes while organizer Sharon Anderson, at left two rows back, is check-ing her list twice to make sure all is in order. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]
The Christmas holiday break from classes has been announced by area schools as follows:
Cashion – Monday, Dec. 21, last day of classes; Jan. 2, classes resume.
Kingfisher – Dec. 21, last day of classes; Jan. 4, professional day; Jan. 5, students return for classes.
Dover – Dec. 16, semester ends; Dec. 19, Christmas break begins; Jan. 3, classes resume.
Hennessey – Dec. 20, last day of classes; Jan. 4, classes resume.
Lomega – Dec. 16, 12:30 p.m., school dismissed; Jan. 2, classes resume.
Okarche – Dec. 21 last day of classes; Jan. 3, professional day; Jan. 4, classes resume.
Crescent – Dec. 22, last day of classes; Jan. 4, classes resume.
Sts. Peter and Paul School, Kingfisher – Dec. 21, last day of classes; Jan. 4, classes resume.
Holy Trinity School, Okarche – Dec. 21, last day of classes; Jan. 4, classes resume.
Christmas break starts this week for students
Elves were busy Thursday at LifeWay Church in Kingfisher, where row upon row of cardboard boxes were being filled with the makings of a hearty Christmas dinner.
Under the direction of Sha-ron Anderson, church members worked in a well-structured assembly line to add stuffing, potatoes and canned vegetables to each box, a roasting bag and tie, information about the church and an invitation to attend.
Early Sunday morning, a fro-
zen turkey or ham and frozen rolls will be added to each, before the more than 100 boxes are sealed.
Church members are then invited to grab one, two or a truckload of boxes on their way out of Sunday service, along with a wrapped toy for each child in each family, and deliver them on the way home.
Anderson said the outreach project was made possible from start to finish through the generos-ity of LifeWay Church members.
Members suggested names
of families in need, to supple-ment names collected from local schools, donated food, gifts and cash needed to fill each box and then helped with the assembly and delivery.
“Donations covered more than 100 percent of the cost and I’ve just never seen that happen,” Anderson said, adding that having members take part in delivering the filled boxes gives them the opportunity for receiv-ing additional blessings from the giving process.
Spirit of giving alive, well at local church
Boom town on horizon?
CIMARRON ELECTRIC Cooperative CEO Mark Snowden, right, visited Kingfisher Lions Club Thursday to share the coop’s expectations and plans for the next wave of drilling activity expected to hit in 2017. With him is Lions Club member Doug Hauser. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]
By Christine ReidTimes-Free Press Senior Editor
Kingfisher County probably won’t become another Williston, N.D., but Cimarron Electric Cooperative CEO Mark Snowden believes lessons can be learned from that boomtown atop the Bakken oil formation to manage anticipated growth in this area.
Snowden recently visited Mountrail-Williams Elec-tric Cooperative in Williston to observe first-hand how a four-year explosion in oil and gas drilling activity between 2010 and 2014 affected that town and the coop-erative that is its main electric supplier.
He shared the lessons of that experience with the Kingfisher Lions Club at its Thursday noon luncheon and in a follow up telephone interview with the Times and Free Press.
“Mountrail-Williams started as a coop about the size of ours, but with all the activity in the Bakken Field, they have exploded to one of the biggest electric coops in the nation,” Snowden said. “We wanted to see how they han-dled it because some of the oil companies we deal with here say what happened up there could happen here.”
Williston, a town of about 12,000 people, ballooned to more than 40,000 in a matter of just a few months as oil companies descended to utilize new technologies to tap into the oil-rich Bakken Field.
“They put up temporary ‘man camps’ to house the workers, but when those were filled, they had people everywhere, in alleys, tents, you name it,” he said.
At one point, the Williston Walmart was selling housing cubes – basically insulated shipping containers equipped with heating and air conditioning, two bunks, a flat-screen TV and a dorm-sized refrigerator, but no stove, shower or toilet – for $24,900.
“It’s better now (that production has eased in the area), but just a nice, 2,000 square foot home is $600,000 in Wil-liston and rent for one-bedroom apartments is the highest in the nation, even more than New York City,” he said.
Williston, an isolated town just 60 miles from the Ca-nadian border and more than four hours from the nearest metropolitan area, faced unique challenges that would not be present here, Snowden said.
“Their coop wasn’t just hooking up wells and building new electric grids, they were basically building towns to serve all the new residents,” Snowden said. “Here we’re surrounded by other towns and not far from Oklahoma City. We’re not the only housing option.”
At a time when the average electric coop in the nation is shrinking by 2 percent per year, Cimarron already has been holding its own and even growing slightly, due to current oilfield activity.
But in the next three years, the coop is anticipating growth in the neighborhood of 45 percent – nothing compared to the 800 percent growth of the Mountrail-Williams Coop, but still a hefty spike that requires careful planning.
The new growth is expected to come from a drilling practice known as infilling, where additional lateral lines are drilled at different depths at existing oilfield sites.
“We’ve seen large oil companies go through our service territory and drill one well on each section to tie up the leases. Now they’ll go back and do infilling where you’ll see a number
of wells go up just 25 or so yards apart,” he said.“When you think about how busy Kingfisher has been this
year, just tying up each section, think about 100 or so more wells being drilled next year.
“Each one of those areas may have a 500 kilowatt load to pick up, where the average house is 15 kw. That’s equivalent to hooking up 30 homes.
“Electric demand could go through the roof.”But Cimarron is taking steps to prepare for and manage
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We would like to thank all our friends who came to the memorial service for our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, Jeff Crone. Also, for all the cards, flowers, visits and prayers.
May God Bless All Of You,The Family of Jeff Crone
Kingfisher ’s Landon Nault was one of 36 stu-dent-athletes from all 15 of Emporia State’s intercolle-giate sports named as 2016-17 Earl W. Sauder Athletic Scholars.
Those student-athletes were celebrated Nov. 28 during the annual luncheon at the Sauder Alumni Cen-ter.
Kingfisher High School’s all-time leading rusher, Nault just completed his third season with the Emporia State football pro-gram.
Kent Weiser, executive director of intercollegiate athletics, said a key aspect of his selection process for each Earl W. Sauder Athletic Scholar is a question he asks himself about the late Earl W. Sauder.
“I had the honor of know-ing Earl Sauder for many years,” said Weiser. “Some-thing I always ask myself
Kingfisher High School seniors Cassidy Adams, Emily Murray and Morgan Pringnitz joined the King-fisher Rotary Club as guests last Tuesday afternoon.
Pringnitz is the daughter of Dusty and Sherry Pring-nitz.
She a member of the Oklahoma Honor Society, National Honor Society and has been listed on the super-intendent’s honor roll. She also is a member of the KHS student council and FCA.
Pringnitz plans to attend Oklahoma State University.
Adams is the daughter of Larry and Twila Adams.
Her honors include su-perintendent’s honor roll, KHS Student of the Month and several cross country awards.
She is a member of stu-dents council, BPA, track,
STORY TIME - The children and parents of Story Time at the Kingfisher Memorial Library were vis-ited by Jessica Torres, a local nurse, on Tuesday, Dec. 13. Torres entertained the group with a reading about what it means to be a nurse from the book “People in my Community: Nurse” by JoAnn Macken. [Photo Provided]
during the selection process is ‘Would I be able to intro-duce this young person to Earl Sauder and would he be proud of them?’”
Earl Sauder established the Earl W. Sauder Athletic Scholarship in 2004 with a substantial gift in excess of $1 million. Even after his passing in 2006, the Saud-er family has continued
to build on his legacy by enhancing the scholarship with gifts of their own.
In 2013, Earl Sauder’s son Steve Sauder and his wife, Bobbi Sauder, gave a significant gift to the Now & Forever Campaign that doubled the annual output of the Earl W. Sauder Ath-letic Scholarship.
“I know that Earl would be very proud that these stu-dent-athletes are Hornets as well as their success in their lives - their academic lives and athletics,” said Weiser. “Without the endowed gift by Earl Sauder and the fol-low-up gift by Steve Sauder and the Sauder family, I can’t tell you the impact that it makes on the athletics department on our ability to recruit and to have teams that we’re proud of.”
Steve Sauder is the pres-ident of Emporia’s Radio Stations, Inc., and also a founder and chairman of the
Board of Managers of Valu-Net, Emporia’s fiber-optic broadband network that makes it one of only two gigabyte communities in Kansas.
“I went with my son Jamie and the Central Mis-souri Mules to watch them play in the national baseball tournament one year,” said Steve Sauder. “While I was there, I spent time with their coaches and saw first-hand what a significant gift could do for their baseball program.
“I came home and one day, my dad and I were talking and I told him that if he gave a substantial gift to Emporia State Athletics, it would be transformative. When he established the scholarship program, he made sure that all 15 sports were taken care of. There’s some irony that my father was never an athlete, but became the benefactor for
Landon Nault
this scholarship, which is important to what goes on here. We’re really proud of it.”
Nault, a junior majoring in biology, is the son of Francis and Sabrina Nault at Kingfisher.
He rushed for a team-high 651 yards and four touchdowns as Emporia finished 11-2 with its only two losses to No. 1 North-west Missouri State.
He was elected as a team captain prior to the season.
A four-year starter at KHS, Nault guided the Yel-lowjackets to the 2013 Class 3A state championship in his football season.
He rushed for more than 2,100 yards and 45 touch-downs that season.
His honors included OCA All-State and he was also a Wendy’s High School Heisman national finalist.
Nault receives Emporia State honor
Library hosts weekly Story Time
RECENT GUESTS of the Kingfisher Rotary Club were KHS seniors, from left, Cassidy Adams, Emily Murray and Morgan Pringnitz. [TIMES-FREE PRESS Staff Photo]
Rotary Club hosts 3 KHS seniors
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The Electoral College, which isn’t a college or a place, meets Monday to officially name Donald Trump as presi-dent-elect of the United States.
Although the presidential election was held a month ago, and Trump received a majority of “electoral votes,” the process isn’t complete until “electors” picked in that election officially perform the job they were elected to do.
The Electoral College is a process, not a place. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the president by a vote in Congress and election of the president by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
At this point, electors pledged to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton are seeking to get an official report on an investigation into reports that Russia influenced the 2016 presidential election.
The Clinton campaign has officially joined the effort seeking the report before the electors vote.
It is obviously a last, desperate effort to undo the elec-tion results.
Changing Result Nearly ImpossibleIt is next to impossible that the ploy will work.While anything is possible, Wikipedia, the Internet
encyclopedia reports despite 157 instances of faithlessness as of 2015, faithless electors (those who change their vote from what they pledged) have not yet affected the ultimate outcome of any election for president or vice president.
Electors are selected by members of their own party to represent them at the electoral college voting process. Electors are usually among the most ardent supporters of their party.
While it is likely that Russia hacked America’s comput-ers, it is also likely that America was hacking theirs to get information (intelligence).
It is practically impossible that anything Russia did changed the mind of America’s voters.Although the Clintons are claiming a majority of the pop-ular vote, it is highly questionable that a majority of legal voters voted for Hillary.
Most of the popular vote edge the Clinton campaign is claiming came from West Coast states, which is heavily populated with illegal aliens. Sorting out that mess would be both time-consuming and costly.
The Electoral College process is both legal and straight-forward. It gives some weight to area as well as population. It avoids a majority (mob) rule situation. Less populated states still have a voice in government. (If they did not, there would be a strong impetus for the unrepre-sented states to pull out of the union, leaving only a few more populous states in the Northeast and West Coast – not much of a nation.) If California decided to leave, as has been suggested there, there probably wouldn’t be a lot of concern on the part of other states.)
The political publication, Politico reported:“In its first show of public support for efforts ques-
tioning the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s victory, Hillary Clinton’s campaign said it is supporting a request by mem-bers of the Electoral College for an intelligence briefing on foreign intervention in the presidential election.
“‘The bipartisan electors’ letter raises very grave is-sues involving our national security,’ Clinton’s former campaign chairman John Podesta said in a statement on Monday. ‘Electors have a solemn responsibility under the Constitution and we support their efforts to have their questions addressed.’
“‘Each day in October, our campaign decried the in-terference of Russia in our campaign and its evident goal of hurting our campaign to aid Donald Trump,’ he said. ‘Despite our protestations, this matter did not receive the attention it deserved by the media in the campaign. We now know that the CIA has determined Russia’s interference in our elections was for the purpose of electing Donald Trump. This should distress every American.’”
CIA Sources ”Political”Erick Erickson of the website Redstate.com responded:This is asinine. First of all, the “conclusion” that Russia
wanted Donald Trump to win is one that is being disputed by the FBI. The “determination” made by the CIA was made by political appointees within the CIA, not agents them-selves. In addition, Podesta was the one stupid enough to get fooled by a phishing scam. He should learn to take more care as to what he clicks on in his emails than whining about Trump and Putin.”
However, it is probably not wise to say “never” where the Clintons are concerned. Their egos and ambition seem limitless.
Nevertheless, it will be a relief when the Electoral Col-lege does its job and Trump becomes even more the official president-elect.
Wikipedia also provides the following information on the Electoral College process:
December 19The Electors meet in their state and vote for President
and Vice President on separate ballots. The electors record their votes on six “Certificates of Vote,” which are paired with the six remaining Certificates of Ascertainment.
The electors sign, seal and certify six sets of electoral votes. A set of electoral votes consists of one Certificate of Ascertainment and one Certificate of Vote. These are distributed immediately as follows:
• One set to the President of the Senate (the Vice Pres-
Electoral College to pick president
(See View, Page 5)
My shrewd buddy Everett came by for a visit today. I hav-en’t seen him for awhile because he’s been hauling stock, driving his John Deere and learning how to operate a backhoe. Everett came by because he got a new saddle and he needed a couple D rings sewn on. I’ll try to get it fixed fast because he needs it to ride herd over his ranch.
Like me, Everett likes work-ing in the shop so when he came we wet a couple pieces of leather and he tried out a couple new stamps I made. He couldn’t stay as long as I would’ve liked because he had to get home and feed all the animals.
Did I mention that Everett is all of two years old?
His John Deere is a small ATV that runs off a 12 volt battery and it has a bed in the back where he loads up one of the family’s dogs and goes for a joy ride. At least it’s a joy for Everett. As for the dogs, well, they’re Border Collies so they are patient and willing but judging by their collective countenance, they’re a little leery of Everett’s driving.
One set of Everett’s grand-parents owns a dirt moving company so for Christmas they got him a plastic tractor with a fully functional backhoe attach-ment. I suspect they’re trying to steer him into the family business but that won’t be easy because he’s showing signs he’d make a great stockman. Everett’s already got a rope and I hate to see what happens when his
Wise beyond his years
It’s the PittsBy Lee Pitts
new baby brother Caleb gets old enough to run. Second sons always have rope burns around their ankles.
Everett is exceptionally bright and you should see the things he can do. Mind you, his parents aren’t pushing him. They’re just exposing him to a lot of different things and if he shows an interest, they are using it as a teaching situation. He
soaks things up like a sponge.We’ve all seen on television
5-year-old concert pianists, adolescents who could sing like angels, 6-year-old pole benders, juvenile tennis stars and on, and on. All because their parents weren’t afraid to teach and expose their children to new wonders at an early age.
My father figure was my Grandpa and he taught me how to fish, but my biggest regret is that he didn’t teach me how to rope, so later in life I had to teach myself. If his belt buckle I wear is any indication, Grandpa was a pretty good team roper and I treasure a photo I have of me sitting in his saddle with him at a rodeo when I was one. My biggest thrill as a youngster was going to his house and sitting on his saddles in his “bunkhouse.” But a saw horse is a poor excuse for a rope horse.
Another important person in my young life was Benny, the wonderful Japanese man who worked for my Grandpa fixing appliances. He instilled in me a love for fixing things and even though that’s not how I make my living, my life has been enhanced in so many ways by Benny. I only wish I would have picked up leatherwork and engraving at an earlier age so I could have enjoyed them all my life. It takes a lot longer and is harder when you have to teach yourself. Especially if you’re as bad a teacher as I am!
My mother paid the bills by working 14 hours a day as a seamstress and she was a great one. And although this may sound feminine of me, I sure wish she’d have taught me how to use and time a sewing machine because I have two sewing machines now for my leatherwork and it took me a long time to master them. I had a million questions to ask her but she had passed away by then.
You want to know who the luckiest kids in the world are? It’s not the richest, or the ones with the bluest blood. It’s the kids with parents, grandparents and friends who take the time to teach them things and in doing so give them confidence that they can achieve anything they set their young minds to do.
Maybe you can’t teach an old man new tricks, but you can sure teach a young one.
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A new victimin the war on small-biz bakeries
By Michelle MalkinIt is not enough for fam-
ily-owned pastry shops to bow to the gay marriage mob. Now, they’re being targeted by the social justice mafia.
At my alma mater, radi-cal Oberlin College in Ohio (which boasts hapless Bal-timore mayor and rioters’ champion Stephanie Rawl-ings Blake and bizarro fem-inist actress and fake rape accuser Lena Dunham as graduates), the operators of a small-business bakery are under siege by vengeful stu-dents and administrators trying to crush them under the wheels of the race-bait-ers’ bandwagon. The true victim in this latest tale of political correctness run amok is Gibson’s Bakery – a quaint shop founded in 1885 that still bakes all its goods using original recipes.
On Nov. 9, according to the city police report I obtained, shop employ-ee Allyn Gibson caught a 19-year-old Oberlin College student allegedly stealing two bottles of wine and hiding them under his shirt. As officers approached the area, Oberlin Police Sgt. (Victor) Ortiz, and Officer (Raymond) Feuerstein both stated they observed Gibson lying on his back with sever-al individuals kneeling over him punching and kicking him with several other in-dividuals in the immediate area. Officers attempted to gain control of the situation and were met several times with resistance from several different individuals.”
Allyn Gibson attempted to stop the alleged thief, Jon-athan Aladin, from leaving the store and tried to take a photo of him as he bolted. Gibson got whacked in the face with his own phone. Aladin then reportedly ran while throwing the two bottles of wine on the floor, becoming “violent” and “grabbing and hitting Al-lyn.” Aladin ran out with two females who were with him in the store. Gibson followed and tried to detain the alleged shoplifter again on the street.
Gibson’s right as a shop employee to detain a sus-pected thief with probable cause until police arrive is protected under Ohio stat-ute. As the females punched and kicked him, police officers who had arrived on scene during the beating wrote:
“Allyn had several abra-sions and minor injuries including what appeared to be a swollen lip, abrasions to his arms and wrists and a small cut on his neck.”
Aladin was charged with robbery and inflicting harm and faces a court hearing in the case this week. The two females, Endia Lawrence and Cecelia Whettstone, were charged with assault.
You can guess what hap-pened next. Aladin, who is black, became the new poster boy of institutional racism and oppression. Students organized protests and shrieked about “racial profiling,” claiming that the bakery had a history of discriminating against cus-tomers “of color.”
It gets worse. Leading the charge in the latest War on Small-Biz Bakeries is the Oberlin College dean of students, Meredith Raimon-do, who joined the baying mob in bullying the Gibson family. She disseminated flyers libelously asserting that Gibson’s is a “racist es-tablishment with a long ac-count of racial profiling and discrimination.” Convicted in the crazy Oberlin College court of public opinion, the school refused to renew its longstanding daily order of doughnuts and bagels. For a small business with ra-zor-thin margins, losing that order could be devastating.
Never mind that the “rac-ism” charge is a brazen lie. As the police department pointed out, since 2011, there had been four robber-ies at the store including Aladin, “and he was the only black person. There were 40 adults arrested for shoplifting in five years, and 32 were white. There were six adult black suspects ar-rested and two Asians, and 33 of the 40 were college students.”
(See Malkin, Page 5)
By Fred LucasThe Daily Signal
President-elect Donald Trump is that rare president who will nominate a Su-preme Court justice almost immediately after taking office.
Trump is expected to act quickly to fill the seat of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February. During a Thursday interview with Sean Hannity, Trump an-nounced he’s narrowed his original list of 21 people to “probably three or four.”
“They are terrific peo-ple,” Trump said on Fox News Channel. “Highly respected, brilliant people. We’ll be announcing that pretty soon.”
Two of the remaining eight Supreme Court jus-tices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 83, and Stephen Breyer, 78, are older than average for a justice and may choose to re-tire. One-third of the poten-tial nominees on Trump’s list of 21 contenders are 50 or younger, and four are women.
This could present a historic opportunity for Trump to reshape the Su-preme Court, author and presidential historian Craig Shirley says.
“With a vacancy and ag-ing people on the court, just as there was a Reagan court and just as there was a Roo-sevelt court, we might see a Trump Supreme Court,” Shirley told The Daily Sig-nal, adding:
It is less likely these jus-tices will retire. It’s more likely they will go out feet first. When you’re in your 80s, you might as well show up at the office. You’re not going to take up water skiing.
White House press sec-retary Josh Earnest told The Daily Signal that President Barack Obama is well aware of coming changes on the high court, though Earnest said he hasn’t heard the president discuss it.
“I’m not aware that the president has spoken to this, either publicly or privately,” Earnest said. “I think the
president’s expectation is that President Trump will fill vacancies on the Su-preme Court by appointing people who are quite differ-ent than the kind of people that President Obama ap-pointed.”
Top Trump adviser Kel-lyanne Conway has said the president-elect is com-mitted to choosing justices from the list of 21 candidates he released earlier this year.
Trump’s release of the list during the campaign was an unprecedented move, Carrie Severino, chief coun-sel and policy director for the Judicial Crisis Network, noted after the election.
“Given the significance of the court to Trump’s vot-ers, I’m confident that he will stand by his campaign promise to appoint some-one from his excellent list of constitutionalist judges,” Severino said in a formal statement, adding:
While that still would leave the Supreme Court in a 4-4-1 balance, with Justice [Anthony] Kennedy as a swing vote, Trump is likely to have the opportunity to appoint additional justices, who can ensure that the Constitution is interpreted according to its text and original meaning and isn’t used as a vehicle for political policy goals.
Most on the list are state Supreme Court justices or U.S. Court of Appeals judg-es. The list include two indi-viduals who have served in Congress and would have a political record to defend. Two brothers also are on the list.
Trump faced some crit-icism for lack of diversity, with eight white males among the 11 names on the initial list he released in May; his subsequent list in September included one South Asian and one His-panic.
A Political TrailAt Senate confirmation
hearings, Supreme Court nominees who already are judges typically avoid di-rectly answering questions about how they would rule on a policy that might come
before the nation’s highest court.
However, three of those on Trump’s list were elected by voters to offices that re-quire taking public stances during the course of a cam-paign. Two of the three have gone on to become judges:
U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is a big favorite of conservatives. Lee, 45, was also a strong critic of Trump during the presiden-tial campaign. As a member of the Senate Judiciary Com-mittee, Lee typically would be in the advise and consent role during confirmation hearings for judicial nomi-nees. Before he was elected to the Senate in 2010, Lee served as an assistant U.S. attorney for Utah. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University Law School and clerked for Justice Samuel Alito.
Florida Chief Justice Charles Canady, 62, was a four-term Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1990s. Canady was one of the impeachment managers that acted as a prosecuting team against President Bill Clinton during his Senate trial in 1999. Canady, on the state’s high court since 2008, was elevated to chief justice in 2010. He previously was a state appeals court judge. He is a graduate of Yale Law School.
Judge William H. Pryor Jr., a Bush appointee, has served since 2004 on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Ala-bama. Pryor, 54, became Alabama’s attorney general in 1997 after his predecessor, Jeff Sessions, was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Republi-can. (Trump has announced he intends to nominate Sessions as U.S. attorney general.) Pryor was elected in his own right in 1998 as state attorney general and was re-elected in 2002. In 2013, he was confirmed to a term on the United States Sentencing Commission. Pryor received his law de-gree from Tulane.
(See Justices, Page 5)
1 of these 21 men, women will be Trump’s 1st court pick
