President Donald Trump said Tuesday night that he will nominate Neil
Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge in Denver, to succeed Antonin
Scalia on the United States Supreme Court.
Gorsuch, who currently serves on the 10th
Circuit Court of Appeals, was appointed in 2006 by George W. Bush and
confirmed by the Senate on a voice vote.
A widely respected judge, he had the backing of
two conservative legal groups that advised former President Barack Obama
and included his name on a list of potential nominees.
The nomination is sure to be hotly contested. Democrats are still
seething over the way Senate Republicans treated President Obama's
nominee to succeed Scalia, federal judge Merrick Garland, who wasn't
even given a hearing last year. Scalia died February 13, and there has
been a vacancy on the nine-member court ever since. Republicans argued
that the next president, not Obama, should get to choose the next
justice.
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