Utah Senator Orrin Hatch might have revealed the identity of President Trump’s next Supreme Court pick with the use of a simple pronoun.
That’s because there is currently only one woman on Trump’s shortlist, and Hatch used female-specific pronouns in an op-ed he wrote for Utah-based Deseret News that was published on Friday entitled, “What to expect when Trump nominates a new Supreme Court justice.”
“Just as he did with Neil Gorsuch, the president has promised to nominate an impartial judge, a wise and seasoned jurist committed to upholding the Constitution at all costs,” wrote the Utah senator. “But no matter the nominee’s background or credentials, progressives will do everything they can to paint her as a closet partisan, if not an outright extremist.”
But that wasn’t the only time Hatch referred to Trump’s pick as a female:
“As the senior member of the Judiciary Committee, I will fight to keep jurisprudence as the sole focus of our confirmation hearings. And I will devote all my energies to ensuring that we confirm the kind of Supreme Court justice America needs: a justice who says what the law is, not what she wants it to be; a justice who calls balls and strikes instead of swinging for the fences; a justice whose foremost allegiance is to the American people and to the Constitution.” (RELATED: CNN Profiles Amy Coney Barrett, Leads With Her Children)
If Hatch did use the right pronoun, that would mean circuit court judge Amy Coney Barrett, the only woman on Trump’s short list, will replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy.