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Surrounded by family and his future colleagues, Neil Gorsuch has taken the first of two oaths as he prepares to take his place as the 113th justice of the Supreme Court. The 49-year-old appeals court judge from Colorado is being sworn in Monday after a bruising fight that saw Republicans change the rules for approving Supreme Court picks - over the fierce objection of Democrats.
Visitors arrive at the Supreme Court as the Senate votes to confirm President Donald Trump's high court nominee Neil Gorsuch, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 7, 2017. Visitors arrive at the Supreme Court as the Senate votes to confirm President Donald Trump's high court nominee Neil Gorsuch, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 7, 2017.
U.S. Supreme Court nominee judge Neil Gorsuch smiles in reaction to a question as he testifies during the third day of his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. on March 22, 2017. Neil Gorsuch, U.S. President Donald Trump's Supreme Court appointee, is due to be sworn in on Monday morning with a formal appearance at the White House, marking the biggest triumph so far for the new administration.
In this Feb. 14, 2017 file photo, then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. With a divisive confirmation process behind him, Gorsuch is about to take his place as the nation's newest Supreme Court justice.
Neil M. Gorsuch joins the Supreme Court today, just in time to cast potentially significant votes in cases that pit religious liberty against gay rights, test limits on funding for church schools and challenge California's restrictions on carrying a concealed gun in public. Such issues arise either in appeals filed by conservative groups that have been pending before the justices for weeks or in cases to be heard later this month.
Neil Gorsuch, President Trump's pick to fill the Supreme Court slot left open following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, was confirmed by the Senate after a bruising fight when the upper chamber's majority leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell, invoked the so-called "nuclear option," which allowed Republicans to end debate without 60 votes and subsequently push through the nomination. To help understand why the addition of Gorsuch, a judicial conservative ideologically similar to Scalia, to the nation's highest court matters, we reached out to Kate Shaw, an ABC News contributor and a Cardozo School of Law professor.
Now that Judge Neil Gorsuch will officially become an associate justice of the Supreme Court today, it is now time to put the partisan battle that preceded his confirmation in the rear view mirror for just a moment to look at the effect his joining the highest court in the land may have on pending judicial matters. As has been chronicled in detail, Mr. Gorsuch will take the place of the late Antonin Scalia, and most pundits expect the newest justice to mirror Scalia in his judicial philosophy.
The Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Neil Gorsuch, which were held last month, in Washington, D.C., quickly fell into a pattern. Democratic senators unsuccessfully sought to pin down Gorsuch's views on issues such as campaign finance, while Republicans made gentle inquiries that seemed designed to run out the clock.
Neil Gorsuch will be formally invested Monday as the 101st associate justice of the Supreme Court, though there will be little time for fanfare. The steady stream of petitions and briefs that make up much of a judge's typical day will not abate for the high court's newest member, who was confirmed by the Senate on a 54-45 vote last week.
So much for the Senate being the wise, mature and deliberative body of the U.S. Congress. So much for the Senate being the adults and the House being the teenagers.
An appeals court ruled in support of LGBT rights this week, reversing decades of interpretation that largely allowed companies to discriminate against workers on the basis of sexual orientation. In their groundbreaking decision, nine of 12 judges in an en banc panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals said that gay and lesbian workers are protected under Title VII.
In this April 7, 2017, photo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., talks to reporters before the vote to confirm President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate confirmation of Gorsuch to the Supreme Court was vindication for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who made a risky bet more than a year ago that paid off big time for Trump and the Republican leader himself.
Sen. Jeff Merkley speaks -- and speaks and speaks -- on the floor of the Senate, holding the floor from Tuesday night through Wednesday morning in opposition to President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nomination. Senator Merkley's action Thursday on the floor of the U.S. Senate was disgusting and embarrassing.
In a Daily Journal opinion piece on Tuesday, Republican Sen. Roger Wicker bashes Democrats for their objections to then-nominee Neil Gorsuch. He accuses his opponents of playing politics by not voting to put a qualified judge on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mainstream news coverage has a hard time making subtle distinctions between the behavior of the two political parties. When Democratic and Republican tactics are blatantly different - on voter suppression, for instance - journalists are often comfortable saying so.
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey applauded Friday's Senate confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Attorney General called Judge Gorsuch a jurist who will respect state government, the role of the judiciary and interpretation of the U.S. Constitution as it was written.
With Judge Neil Gorsuch's confirmation to the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump - the first truly outsider president in recent memory - has his first major legislative achievement. It also is a victory for insiders.
U.S. Senator Michael Bennet. The Martin Luther King Jr. Marade Jan. 16 2017. mlk marade martin luther king jr city park denver colorado kevinjbeaty Charles E. Grassley and gave a thumbs-up to photographers.
The move allows President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch to be confirmed by a simple majority vote, instead of the longstanding supermajority threshold of 60 votes. Republican Johnny Isakson of Georgia did not vote.