Donald Trump Supreme Court candidates

With the advice and consent of the United States Senate, the President of the United States appoints the members of the Supreme Court of the United States, which is the highest court of the federal judiciary of the United States. Following his victory in the 2016 presidential election, Republican Donald Trump took office as president on January 20, 2017 and faced an immediate vacancy on the Supreme Court due to the February 2016 death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia as well as the Republican-controlled Senate's months-long refusal to consider the Democratic previous President Barack Obama's nomination of United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Chief Judge Merrick Garland to replace Scalia.