President Donald Trump confirmed to Fox News' Sean Hannity he will name someone from his list, making good on his campaign pledge. | AP Photo Trump: I have settled on my Supreme Court pick. Probably.

President Donald Trump said Thursday he has determined who he will nominate to the Supreme Court, although he cautioned that he could change his mind before next week’s formal announcement.

POLITICO reported this week that the president has whittled his campaign list of 21 judges to a three-person short list: Circuit judges Neil Gorsuch, Thomas Hardiman and Bill Pryor, with the first two being considered the front-runners.


“I have made my decision pretty much in my mind, yes,” Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity, according to an excerpt of an interview that will air Thursday evening. “That’s subject to change at the last moment, but I think this will be a great choice.”

Trump floated a list of 21 potential judges who could replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. And though the short list has dwindled to three, only one has the support of Trump’s sister, fellow 3rd Circuit Judge Maryanne Trump Barry: Hardiman.

The president confirmed to Hannity he will name someone from his list, making good on his campaign pledge.

“I'm going to keep as many as I can,” Trump said of such pledges. “You know, politics is tough. Sometimes you make a promise and for some reason you can’t, because you have opposition on the other side that raises their hand and they make it impossible, but I’m going to keep a lot of them and I’ve kept a lot of them already. Everyone's talking about it.”

But if Democrats try to block his nominee, Trump added that he would support Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell killing the 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court picks.

“I would,” Trump said, calling Democrats “obstructionists” for slow-walking some of his Cabinet nominees.