As the Trump White House assembles a team of lawyers to coordinate its U.S. Supreme Court nomination effort, staffers on the Senate side are girding for the summer’s confirmation fight by bringing on an outside lawyer.

The committee is searching for a lawyer for a temporary paid position that will end “after the Senate confirmation vote,” according to a top aide to Senate Judiciary chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley. That lawyer will be tasked with “assisting chairman Chuck Grassley and his team with the confirmation effort for” Justice Anthony Kennedy’s replacement on the Supreme Court. Kennedy announced his retirement in June.

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