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How to use the word nominate in a Sentence?

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And now, to have the very person who inspired me to seek justice nominate the attorney who tried to tamper and take away my right to anonymity in my search for justice is just astounding, and really disappointing.

Chessy Prout

Found on CNN
1 year ago

President Trump raised the bar for what it means to be a pro-life presidential candidate and president. As a candidate, he made written commitments to the pro-life movement and exposed Hillary Clinton’s extreme abortion views on the debate stage. As president, he kept his promises to the pro-life movement, chief among them to only nominate pro-life judges to the Supreme Court.

Marjorie Dannenfelser

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If they want to nominate someone far-left and ensure that seat goes red in two years, we're all for that.

Greg Thomas

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

My job as President is not... only( to) nominate highly, highly qualified individuals for that institution, but to give them the space they need to do their job. I'm not going to interfere with their critically important work.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What the president said is that only African American women are eligible for this slot, that 94% of Americans are ineligible, the way Biden ought to do it is to say 'I'm going to look for the best justice,' interview a lot of people, and if he happens to nominate a justice who was an African American woman, then great.

Ted Cruz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He’s got a choice — is he going to nominate a pro-America, pro-Constitution justice, or is he going to keep doing what he’s doing and divide this country with a hard woke-left activist? we’re about to find out. I hope Republicans are ready to stand up for the Constitution.

Josh Hawley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. And that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court, it's long overdue, in my view.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. And that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the Supreme Court, it's long overdue, in my view. I made that commitment during the campaign for president, and I will keep that commitment.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You know, there’s always a renewed national debate, every time we nominate, any president, nominates a justice, because the Constitution is always evolving slightly in terms of additional rights, or curtailing rights, and it’s always an issue.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So if he wants to -- I gather he no longer believes in the filibuster – if he wants to get right on that and wants to make amends for his opposition to her historic nomination, he should nominate her. And I think that would be very unifying.

Rogers Brown

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. And that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the California Supreme Court, it's long overdue in my view. I made that commitment during the campaign for President, and I will keep that commitment.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Other things equal, I think it would be good if Biden nominated an originalist, though there certainly can be originalists whose positions on particular important legal issues are sufficiently bad that I might rather have a living constitutionalist nominee, instead (depending on the particular type of living constitutionalist), originalism is not a bullet-proof guarantee against grave error. Regardless, I think it’s very unlikely Biden will nominate an originalist.

Associated Press

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I've made no decision except one: The person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. And that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the United States Supreme Court, it's long overdue, in my view.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

With this Supreme Court vacancy, President Biden has the opportunity to nominate someone who will bring diversity, experience, and an evenhanded approach to the administration of justice, i look forward to moving the President’s nominee expeditiously through the Committee.

Dick Durbin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In the wake of Justice Breyer’s retirement, I want to voice my support for President Biden in his pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. The Court should reflect the diversity of our country, and it is unacceptable that we have never in our nation’s history had a Black woman sit on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Elena Kagan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If the former president interferes with the primaries and tries to help nominate folks that are unelectable in a general election in, say, swing districts and purple states, that's gon na hurt.

Larry Hogan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

A far-left coalition of Democrats convened this afternoon to roll out their most radical agenda point yet – packing the Supreme Court, their plan : create four new seats on the Supreme Court and let Joe Biden nominate anyone Joe Biden wants. … But do n’t you dare say they’re packing Supreme Court.

Lawrence Jones

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

When President Biden announced President Biden intention to nominate Ms. Tanden as OMB Director, I expressed concern and urged President Biden to reconsider. As a former OMB Director, I know that the OMB Director has to be able to work productively with members of Congress on both sides of the aisle.

Rob Portman

Found on CNN
3 years ago

President Trump has the constitutional power to' nominate' Judge Barrett to be a Supreme Court Justice, and the Senate has the constitutional power to' consent' to Judge Barrett, that's all the Constitution says on the subject, and no precedents have added any extra requirements to that.

Eugene Volokh

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As a pastor and father, the issue of life is deeply personal to me. Weve got our best chance in decades to strike down Roe V. Wade. Lets take it, @realdonaldtrumpis going to nominate a pro-life conservative and the Senate needs to do their job and confirm without delay.

Doug Collins

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If you don't nominate people who can appeal to the general election audience, you are going to lose, and so the President has been helpful in working with me and making sure we got the right people nominated.

Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think we have a different set of circumstances. We have a President who is very actively running for reelection, he's going to be on the ballot. People are going to be able to render a verdict on him like they couldn't on Obama. My guess is he would absolutely nominate somebody. I would be shocked if he didn't.

Josh Hawley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Before we rush to nominate Sen. Sanders in our one shot to take on this President, let us take a sober look at what is at stake for our party, for our values, there is so much on the line, and one thing we know for sure is that we absolutely must defeat Donald Trump and everything Donald Trump represents.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The President can nominate whoever The President wants to. I dare say it's very difficult to get a DNI nominee through the confirmation process.

Senate Republican

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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