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The Senate ultimately confirmed Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court by a 54–45 vote on April 7, 2017 (all Republicans and three Democrats voted in his favor). Ten days after his confirmation, Gorsuch heard his first case as the 101st associate justice of the Court, in Anthony Perry vs. Merit Systems Protection Board .
Neil McGill Gorsuch (/ ˈ ɡ ɔːr s ʌ tʃ / GOR-sutch; [1] born August 29, 1967) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017, and has served since April 10, 2017.
On April 6, 2017, when considering the nomination of Neil Gorsuch, in a party-line vote the Republican Senate majority invoked the so-called "nuclear option", voting to reinterpret Senate Rule XXII and change the cloture vote threshold for Supreme Court nominations to a simple majority of senators present and voting. [2] [6] [7]
The Colorado judge will be one of the youngest nominees to the court in modern history -- and he's got something in common with Barack Obama. Who is Neil Gorsuch? Fast facts about President Donald ...
Moments after President Trump announced his nominee to succeed Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court, Democrats began rallying to filibuster the nomination.
Judge Neil Gorsuch, his wife Louise, [11] and President Donald Trump during the announcement in the East Room of the White House. On February 13, 2016, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia died while vacationing at Cibolo Creek Ranch near Marfa, Texas. [12] Scalia's death marked just the second time in 60 years that a sitting Supreme Court justice ...
A recent story claimed all Supreme Court justices signed a letter to President Trump shaming his pick of Neil Gorsuch to the bench, a statement shown false.
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States.Established by Article III of the Constitution, the Court was organized by the 1st United States Congress through the Judiciary Act of 1789, which specified its original and appellate jurisdiction, created 13 judicial districts, and fixed the size of the Supreme Court at six, with one chief justice ...