When Justice Antonin Scalia backed out of a book project with writing partner Bryan Garner, the justice recommended who might take his place. Neil Gorsuch was first on this list.
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Here’s How the War on Women Could Land in the Supreme Court
During his campaign, President Donald Trump pledged his commitment to the anti-abortion movement and promised he would only appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade , the 1973 decision that made abortion legal.
Gorsuch willing to limit environmental groups
In this Monday, April 23, 2007 file photo, Cottonwood Canyon, center, branches off in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument east of Boulder, Utah. In 2011, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch showed his distaste for drawn-out litigation when he sided with a majority of other judges who found The Wilderness Society lacked standing in a lawsuit related to off-road vehicles on federal land, including in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch willing to limit environmental groups in land cases
In this Monday, April 23, 2007 file photo, Cottonwood Canyon, center, branches off in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument east of Boulder, Utah. In 2011, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch showed his distaste for drawn-out litigation when he sided with a majority of other judges who found The Wilderness Society lacked standing in a lawsuit related to off-road vehicles on federal land, including in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
Suit over artifact looting case suicide rejected on appeal
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management didn’t use excessive force when armed agents dressed in body armor arrested James Redd in 2009. The judges declined to overturn a lower-court decision that tossed the lawsuit after a judge found the presence of federal agents in SWAT-like gear wasn’t unreasonable.
Supreme Court nominee has defended free speech, religion
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has been a defender of free speech and a skeptic of libel claims, an Associated Press review of his rulings shows. His record puts him at odds with President Donald Trump’s disdain for journalists and tendency to lash out at critics.
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has defended free speech, religion
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has been a defender of free speech and a skeptic of libel claims, an Associated Press review of his rulings shows. His record puts him at odds with President Donald Trump’s disdain for journalists and tendency to lash out at critics.
Supreme Court nominee ‘disheartened’ by Trump’s delegitimizing…
Neil Gorsuch, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals judge nominated by President Donald Trump to the vacant Supreme Court seat last week, said Wednesday he was “disheartened” by the president attempting to delegitimize a federal judge. Gorsuch made the comment during a meeting with Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, as he seeks Senate confirmation.
Gorsuch is just the judge the court needs
Judge Neil Gorsuch speaks after being introduced as President Donald Trump’s nominee for the vacant Supreme Court seat, at the White House in Washington on Tuesday. Gorsuch was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit by George W. Bush.
40 percent approve of Supreme Court pick, want confirmation
A plurality of Americans approve of Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, and say the Senate should confirm him, according to a new poll. A survey of 1,000 adults by the Huffington Post and YouGov found that 40 percent of the public either strongly or somewhat approve of Gorsuch, while only 28 percent somewhat or strongly disapprove of the nomination.
Mike Pence in Philadelphia: Neil Gorsuch will join Supreme Court ‘one way or the other’
Vice President Mike Pence pledged Saturday that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will join the nation’s highest court “one way or the other.” Pence made the pledge during a speech in Philadelphia to the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group.
VP: Gorsuch will join Supreme Court ‘one way or the other’
PALM BEACH, Fla. – Vice President Mike Pence pledged Saturday that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch will join the nation’s highest court “one way or the other.”
Trump urges Senate Republicans to crash Dem. resistance for Supreme Court pick
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged Senate Republicans to take the so-called “nuclear option” to prevent Democrats from using a filibuster to block his Supreme Court pick. “If we end up with that gridlock I would say if you can, Mitch, go nuclear,” Trump said of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch skeptical of gov’t regulations
This photo provided by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals shows Judge Neil Gorsuch.
Conservative Judge Gorsuch is Trump’s Supreme Court choice
President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch, a fast-rising conservative judge with a writer’s flair, to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, setting up a fierce fight with Democrats over a jurist who could shape America’s legal landscape for decades to come. At 49, Gorsuch is the youngest Supreme Court nominee in a quarter-century.
Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch has conservative pedigree
This photo provided by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals shows Judge Neil Gorsuch. Conservatives who care about the court say they have no such worry this time around.
U.S. Supreme Court nominee Gorsuch a Coloradan seen as a pro-life, strict constructionist
President Donald Trump picked a U.S. Supreme Court nominee whose roots run deep in Colorado politics and Reagan conservatism. Neil Gorsuch, who has served on the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver since 2006, said Trump had entrusted him with a solemn assignment.
Biographical notes on Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch
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EDITORIAL: Put Colorado’s Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court
Congratulations to President Donald Trump for nominating Boulder resident and 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the void left by deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The Denver native’s resume alone ranks Gorsuch among the cream of the top 1 percent of lawyers in the United States.
FiveThirtyEight: How Trump’s Pick Will Alter SCOTUS
Of President Donald Trump’s four shortlisted Supreme Court possibles, Neil Gorsuch of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver would be closest to late jurist Antonin Scalia, someone whose beliefs the commander-in-chief wants echoed in his replacement, FiveThirtyEight.com says. Trump, who will announce his pick to replace Scalia on Tuesday reportedly is considering four names: Gorsuch, Thomas Hardiman of the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia, and William Pryor and Raymond Kethledge, federal judges on the Atlanta-based 11th Circuit and Cincinnati-based 6th Circuit, respectively.
Editorial: A message from Kansans: Stop embarrassing us
If you asked a few politically minded Americans how they would characterize our state, how do you think they would answer? Would they admire the prudent, bipartisan governance that has guided us through the past few years? Or would they say something about Gov. Sam Brownback’s 26 percent approval rating, Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s obsession with voter fraud, the reckless campus carry law that will take effect this year and a fiscal situation that can only be described as a disaster? This is the image of Kansas that has crystallized across the country.