Hans A. von Spakovsky, Relentless, harsh and wholly unmerited—such were the attacks against Judge Neil Gorsuch. Yet Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) held firm to his promise to hold a full-Senate vote on the judge’s nomination and today we have, once again, a full complement of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. Hopefully, Gorsuch’s
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Supreme Court: 5 cases Gorsuch will hear in his first month on the bench
It was a grueling process from President Trump’s nomination of U.S. Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch in January to the Supreme Court seat left vacant at Justice Antonin Scalia’s death to the Senate’s confirmation of him on Friday. But now comes the really hard work. With less than a month left in the court’s current sitting,
Justice Gorsuch: Senate Confirms Trump’s First SCOTUS Pick
Ian Mason, The Senate voted just before noon Friday to confirm Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Nation’s highest bench. The vote, originally set for Friday evening, was moved up to the morning after Democrats agreed to wave part of the final debate period. Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s pick to replace conservative anchor of the Court,
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch all but certain to win confirmation
President Trump’s selection to replace Antonin Scalia is expected to win confirmation Friday and be sworn in soon after to hear the final cases of the term. The Senate will resume debate on Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on the morning, and a vote is expected about midday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said. McConnell’s
A New Way to Pick Supreme Court Justices
Edmund Contoski, President Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court has brought to the fore a troublesome feature of our federal government, namely the selection of Supreme Court justices. The problem developed from the Senate’s failure to approve the nomination of Robert Bork to the Court thirty years ago. James Robertson, now
Senate goes ‘nuclear,’ ends Democrats’ blockade of Trump court pick
Senate Republicans on Thursday crushed a Democratic blockade of President Donald Trump’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee in a fierce partisan brawl, approving a rule change dubbed the “nuclear option” to allow for conservative judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation by Friday. With ideological control of the country’s highest court at stake, the Republican-led Senate voted 52-48 along
As Gorsuch Confirmation Approaches, Democrats are out of obstruction strategies
Joseph Klein, President Trump’s nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court is heading for a final showdown Friday, in what is emerging as likely the most high-stakes partisan battle yet during the first 100 days of the Trump administration. On Monday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the
How McConnell plans to get Gorsuch confirmed
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is preparing to deploy the “nuclear option” to confirm Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. So what exactly is the nuclear option? In short, it’s an extreme parliamentary maneuver to change the Senate precedent and lower the bar to break a filibuster on a Supreme Court nominee from 60 votes to
GOP Senators prepare to go nuclear for Gorsuch as Democrats escalate opposition
A Senate showdown is set for Thursday morning as Republicans prepare to go nuclear in their push to confirm President Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court as Democrats escalate their attacks on his selection. Democrats have portrayed Judge Neil Gorsuch as an ally of the powerful and an enemy of the weak ahead of Thursday’s
Anti Abortion: Confirm Judge Gorsuch without delay
Kristan Hawkins, The abortion lobby has been in crisis mode ever since the early morning hours of November 9th, 2016 when they curled up with their cosmos and watched someone who had publicly promised to appoint a pro-life Supreme Court Justice and defund Planned Parenthood give his acceptance speech for the Presidency of the United
A Question of Lawful Authority
Robert Knight, Baseball season gets underway this week, a welcome distraction from the political battles in Washington. Meanwhile, the U.S. Senate is warring over the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. The Republicans say he’s a stellar nominee, a judicial umpire who calls balls and strikes as he sees them. Democrats, led by New
Gorsuch and the Ghost of Harry Reid
Cal Thomas, What goes around comes around is one of life’s undeniable truisms and never more than in the politics of Washington, D.C. (the “D.C.” increasingly standing for dysfunctional city). Last week was Cherry Blossom week in D.C. This week it’s Neil Gorsuch week. Republicans must now decide whether to use the “nuclear option,” a