"Who is Neil Gorsuch, Supreme Court nominee?" will be the question of the day if President Donald Trump does as expected and nominates the Colorado-born judge to serve on the highest court in the land.
Judge Neil Gorsuch is the most likely Supreme Court nominee partly because of his striking similarities to the late Justice Antonin Scalia - who Judge Gorsuch would be replacing.
But Judge Gorsuch is the front-runner for lots of other reasons, too...
"Who is Neil Gorsuch, Supreme Court nominee?" will be the question of the day if President Donald Trump does as expected and nominates the Colorado-born judge to serve on the highest court in the land.
Judge Neil Gorsuch is the most likely Supreme Court nominee partly because of his striking similarities to the late Justice Antonin Scalia - who Judge Gorsuch would be replacing.
But Judge Gorsuch is the front-runner for lots of other reasons, too...
A history of Supreme Court nominations reveals it's quite rare for a president's pick to be flat-out rejected by the Senate -- but it does happen...
Earlier today, President Obama announced Merrick Garland as his selection to replace deceased conservative justice Antonin Scalia on the SCOTUS. Garland is widely considered a "moderate" judge. That means he would be in the position of issuing crucial "swing votes" to decide cases.
Even though Garland's not a staunch leftist, President Obama's nomination flies in the face of national Republican leadership, which has demanded the president leave the seat vacant until the next presidency in January 2017.
