NPR’s Nina Totenberg reports that President Obama has begun interviewing potential SCOTUS nominees. The potential nominees named by Totenberg include those identified in a prior NYT report in addition to Judge Paul J. Watford of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. SCOTUSBlog’s Tom Goldstein initially named Watford as Obama’s most likely nominee to replace Justice Scalia, though Goldstein later changed his mind. Although Watford’s nomination had the support of some conservative scholars, there were a significant number of votes against his confirmation to the Ninth Circuit. He was confirmed in 2012 by a vote of 61-34.