Conservatives have warned he may not be up to the task of replacing the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

by Cristian Farias

(Huffington Post) - Donald Trump on Wednesday fulfilled his promise to release his list of potential Supreme Court nominees — a group he has vowed would consist of conservative jurists with “great intellects.”

The most notable names among his picks are Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett, who has a dedicated Twitter following, and U.S. Circuit Judges Diane Sykes and William Pryor, who are well respected in Republican circles.

The other names on the list aren’t exactly household names and are drawn largely from federal appeals courts across the country.

They include Steven Colloton, an 8th Circuit judge who once clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist and served as a Justice Department lawyer; his colleague Raymond Gruender, who worked as a federal prosecutor in Missouri for several years before being appointed to the bench by George W. Bush; and 6th Circuit judge Raymond Kethledge, another Bush appointee with experience in both public service and private practice.

The list is rounded out by U.S. Circuit Judges Thomas Hardiman (3rd Circuit), Thomas Lee of Utah and David Stras of Minnesota, according to the Trump campaign.

Plus three state supreme court justices, Joan Larsen of Michigan, Allison Eid of Colorado, and Thomas Lee of Utah.

Trump has said he would rely on the know-how of The Heritage Foundation to help guide his decision-making, and that he would ultimately nominate “wonderful, conservative, good, solid, brilliant“ judges to the Supreme Court.

Of the names on the 11-judge list, five coincide with those put forward by Heritage: Willett, Sykes, Pryor, Colloton and Gruender.

Conservatives have warned that the presumptive Republican nominee, who has displayed shifting views on hotly contested issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage, may not be up to the task of securing the legacy of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February.