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from the deciding-what-is-constitutional dept.

In his second face-off with Hillary, Trump said [politico.com], "I am looking to appoint judges very much in the mold of Justice Scalia."

Rolling Stone reports [rollingstone.com]

Justice Scalia died almost a year ago [rollingstone.com] [...]. Obama, who as president was entitled to fill Supreme Court vacancies, nominated the widely respected moderate federal judge Merrick Garland [rollingstone.com] to fill Scalia's seat. But Senate Republicans, who were at the tail end of spending eight years crushing all of Obama's hope and naiveté, refused to hold hearings for Garland, so his nomination failed.

[...]Announced live in prime time [January 31,] President Trump has nominated Neil Gorsuch to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat that the Republicans stole from Barack Obama [rollingstone.com]. Gorsuch is currently a judge on the federal appeals court in Colorado [uscourts.gov] and is widely viewed by Republicans [redstate.com][1] as a solid conservative who will be, if confirmed, a suitable replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia.

[...]With Justice Scalia, the Roberts Supreme Court was one of the most conservative in history--some say the most conservative. Gorsuch, in many ways, would be very similar to Scalia, but younger. At 49, he's the youngest nominee in decades, and could potentially be on the Court into the 2050s.

[1] Don't you just hate websites that try to hijack/block your scrollmouse actions?

Ballotpedia notes [ballotpedia.org]

Gorsuch was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit by President George W. Bush on May 10, 2006, to a seat vacated by David Ebel. The American Bar Association rated Gorsuch Unanimously Well Qualified for the nomination.

In his announcement, Trump mentioned that the Senate gave Gorsuch unanimous approval for that judgeship.

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