Watch Live: Senate hearings on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court nomination

The speeches are - for the most part - over, and the gloves are ready to come off on Capitol Hill today, where a key Senate committee will begin questioning Judge Neil Gorsuch on his qualifications to take the seat of Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. The marathon session, which follows Monday's largely introductory affair, begins at 9:30 a.m. ET with the Senate Judiciary Committee taking up its advise and consent role on President Trump's choice for the high court.

Excerpts from opinions written by Judge Neil Gorsuch

Excerpts from opinions written by Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, a judge on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver: Addressing a long-running boundary dispute involving the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservations in Utah, August 2016:. "We're beginning to think we have an inkling of Sisyphus's fate.

Elai Katz

Antitrust columnist Elai Katz reviews recent developments, including the Tenth Circuit's affirming the dismissal of antitrust claims asserting concerted denial of access to an essential facility in the natural gas market in western Colorado and a district court's acceptance of a narrow relevant market proposed by the U.S. Department of Justice, ensuring the government's successful challenge to Aetna's proposed acquisition of rival health insurer Humana.

Spicer gets into heated exchange with reporters after…

White House press secretary Sean Spicer acknowledged Thursday that President Donald Trump has leveled attacks on the US judiciary and that Judge Neil Gorsuch said attacks on the US judiciary were "demoralizing" and "disheartening." But Spicer repeatedly insisted that Gorsuch's comments had nothing to do with Trump's comments, leading to heated back-and-forth exchanges with White House reporters about the issue.

Gorsuch paid $3.28 million by former firm, under 2005 deal

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch gave up a $1 million a year paycheck when he left his private law practice a decade ago for less financially rewarding work as a government lawyer and then a judge. But he managed to do quite nicely for his first four years on the federal bench even so, earning $3.28 million in deferred payments through 2009.

Count Gorsuch: Kathleen Parker

Judge Neil Gorsuch speaks as his wife Louise and President Donald Trump stand with him on stage in East Room of the White House in Washington after the president announced Judge Neil Gorsuch as his nominee for the Supreme Court. People for the American Way claims he's an ideologue "far outside of the judicial mainstream who has a record of warping the law to serve the powerful over the interests and constitutional rights of ordinary Americans."

Trumpa s Supreme Court pick wary of a politicians with robesa

Judge Neil Gorsuch recalls being blinded by tears in the middle of a ski run after someone rang his cellphone with news of the unexpected death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The reaction illustrates not only the depth of Gorsuch's admiration for his mentor but also how thoroughly he has modeled his conservative constitutionalist views after Scalia.

Trump’s Supreme Court pick wary of ‘politicians with robes’

Judge Neil Gorsuch recalls being blinded by tears in the middle of a ski run after someone rang his cellphone with news of the unexpected death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The reaction illustrates not only the depth of Gorsuch's admiration for his mentor but also how thoroughly he has modeled his conservative constitutionalist views after Scalia.

Trump’s Supreme Court pick goes to Republican Senate

Judge Neil Gorsuch was announced as President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Tuesday - a nomination that could fill the Supreme Court's vacant seat that has gone unfilled since Justice Antonin Scalia's death in February 2016. Gorsuch's nomination does not come as a surprise, Assoc.

Hobby Lobby, executive power: Gorsuch’s key rulings

JANUARY 31: U.S. President Donald Trump nominates Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House January 31, 2017 in Washington, DC. If confirmed, Gorsuch would fill the seat left vacant with the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016.

Possible Supreme Court nominees in Washington ahead of announcement

Two judges reportedly on President Donald Trump's short list to be a nominee for the Supreme Court were on the way Tuesday to Washington, DC. CNN reports that Thomas Hardiman and Neil Gorsuch are being brought to the White House in advance of the announcement at 8 p.m. ET.

5 Faith Facts on the presumed Supreme Court nominees

President Donald Trump is expected to announce his first Supreme Court nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last February. Pundits have whittled the new president's list of potential candidates to two: Neil Gorsuch, currently a federal judge on 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver and Thomas Hardiman.

Trump narrows down Supreme Court nominee list to 3

WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump has narrowed his choice to fill the Supreme Court vacancy to three judges and said he expects to make his decision in the coming days. A person familiar with the selection process said the three judges, all white men who sit on federal appeals courts, were on the list of 21 potential high court picks Trump announced during the presidential campaign.

Editorial: Overcoming more barriers to voter suppression

Thanks to Secretary of State Kris Kobach, it has become unnecessarily complicated for thousands of Kansans to participate in this year's elections. Although district and federal court judges have ordered Kobach to accept the registrations of 20,000 voters who failed to provide proof-of-citizenship documents when they filed their applications, this morass of legal proceedings has made it difficult for Kansans to know where they stand.