Trump hands Hardiman a second Supreme Court snub
On January 31, 2017, Judge Thomas Hardiman stopped at a gas station in Altoona, Pennsylvania, setting off fierce speculation that he was headed to Washington for a Bachelor-style ceremony in which he would be named President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
It was a false alarm, fueled in part by a White House effort to create an impression that both Hardiman and Justice Neil Gorsuch were racing to Washington.