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Via Mediaite:
Incoming White House chief of staff Reince Priebus seemingly suggested during an interview with Hugh Hewitt that president elect Donald Trump might do away with or radically change the White House press briefing and other traditional aspects of the press corps.
Priebus seemed receptive to a suggestion from Hewitt that Trump should get rid of the “boring” Saturday morning radio address and do a round of radio interviews instead. “I think that many things have to change, and I think that it’s important that we look at all of those traditions that are great, but quite frankly, as you know, don’t really make news,” he said.
The RNC chairman said they were even “looking at things like the daily White House briefing from the press secretary. I mean, there’s a lot of different ways that things can be done, and I can assure you we’re looking at that.”
Politico reports more news from Priebus:
President-elect Donald Trump will commence narrowing the next search for a U.S. Supreme Court justice shortly after the new year and should have it down to one name around the time he takes the oath of office, his future chief of staff Reince Priebus said on Wednesday.
“Obviously, I think that’s going to be something that we’re going to start after the new year, and certainly by the time we get to inauguration, either shortly before or shortly thereafter,” Priebus told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. “We’ll reveal the name of who our nominee will be.”
The highest court in the nation has had a vacancy since mid-February when Justice Antonin Scalia died in Texas. Just over a month later, President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland, chief judge of the D.C. Circuit. But the Republican-controlled Senate never acted on the nomination, including not holding confirmation hearings, which would have upended control of the court.