Lindsey Graham Suggests Trey Gowdy for the Supreme Court

The senator and Republican presidential candidate praised his fellow South Carolinian Republican's "real world experience."

Representative Trey Gowdy, a Republican from South Carolina, left, objects to Lois Lerner's, the director of the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) exempt organizations office, unseen, refusal to answer questions, during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, May 22, 2013.
Photographer: Pete Marovich/Bloomberg

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By Ben Brody

July 1, 2015 at 6:18 PM UTC

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South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is lagging far towards the back of the pack in this year's crowded field for the Republican presidential nomination, but he's already got his first Supreme Court nominee picked out: fellow Palmetto State lawmaker Trey Gowdy.

In a meeting Wednesday with the Des Moines Register's editorial board, Graham said, he'd like to make his first justice a qualified lawyer "with real world experience" rather than a career jurist. He suggested "a guy like [Representative] Trey Gowdy."