After a bruising GOP presidential primary, in May 2016 Donald Trump released a list of potential Supreme Court nominees to reassure conservative voters that the presumptive Republican nominee—a former Hillary Clinton donor who once mused about putting his liberal sister on the high court—would nominate judicial conservatives.
John McCormack is a senior editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was Washington correspondent at National Review and a senior writer at The Weekly Standard. He is also a visiting fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. When John is not reporting on politics and policy, he is probably enjoying life with his wife and daughter in northern Virginia or having fun visiting family in Wisconsin.
