Updated | At the White House Tuesday night, President Donald Trump nominated federal Judge Neil Gorsuch of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court. His much-anticipated decision comes nearly a year after Justice Antonin Scalia’s unexpected death left vacant a seat on the high court. Related: Who is Neil Gorsuch? “I have selected an individual whose qualities define, really and I mean closely define, what we’re looking for,” Trump said in a primetime address from the East Room. “Judge Gorsuch has outstanding legal skills, a brilliant mind, tremendous discipline and has earned bipartisan support.” Standing alongside his wife, Gorsuch called his nomination a “most solemn assignment.” “I pledge that if I am confirmed, I will do all in my powers to permit to be a faithful server to the constitutional laws of this great country,” he said. “In our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply—not alter the work—of the people’s representatives.” Over the course of his four-year term, Trump will appoint hundreds of federal judges. But his first step was his nomination to restore the Scalia-era balance to the nine-justice… Read full this story
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