Facts about Donald Trump's pick. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to announce his pick for the U. S. Supreme Court on Tuesday night and one of the leading contenders is Judge Neil Gorsuch, a fourth- generation Coloradan and conservative jurist who has written against euthanasia and in favor of political term limits.
For several days, Gorsuch, a justice on the Denver- based 1. Circuit Court of Appeals, has stayed on the short list of nominees expected to fill the seat of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last year. Also there: William Pryor Jr.
Cory Gardner, who pointed out that the Senate approved by voice vote his 2. His work background includes time as a partner with the Washington law firm Kellogg Huber Hansen Todd Evans & Figel, a stint with the U. S. Department of Justice and clerkships with Supreme Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy. Carolyn Kaster, The Associated Press.
Judge Neil Gorsuch stands with his wife Louise as President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. Gorsuch as his nominee for the Supreme Court.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)“He has grabbed every brass ring,” said David Lat, managing editor of the legal website Above the Law. That’s a deadly combination for Democrats.”Two other Colorado judges were on Trump’s original list of 2. Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison Eid and Tim Tymkovich, chief judge for the 1. Circuit. If nominated, Gorsuch would have to get approval from the U. S. Senate before sitting on the high court. But unlike 2. 00.
Democrats, who remain angry over how Republicans stalled for months the nomination of Merrick Garland, President Barack Obama’s pick. Euthanasia, birth control and other notable cases. For conservatives, Gorsuch meets conservative standards as an originalist and a textualist — someone who interprets the Constitution and statutes as they were originally written. His family has ties to the Republican party locally and in Washington, and at the age of 4. Gorsuch is best known nationally for taking the side of religious organizations that opposed parts of the Affordable Care Act that compelled coverage of contraceptives.
In one of those cases, Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby Stores, he wrote of the need for U. S. In a 2. 00. 5 article in the National Review, Gorsuch argued that “American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda.”Opponents cite the Hobby Lobby ruling and a dissenting position Gorsuch took in the 1. Circuit’s ruling against the Denver- based Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic order that runs nursing homes for impoverished seniors. Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of the group, which sought an exemption to the health care law’s requirement that employer health plans provide access to contraception, sending the case back to district court.“Judge Gorsuch has a record of ruling in a way that does not reflect Colorado values on reproductive rights. This is a pro- choice state that supports the constitutional right to abortion enshrined in Roe v. Wade and the right to privacy enshrined in Griswold v.
Connecticut — beliefs that are contradicted in Judge Gorsuch’s ruling in Hobby Lobby and Little Sisters,” Karen Middleton, executive director of NARAL Pro- Choice Colorado, said in a statement.“Colorado has a long, bipartisan history of supporting reproductive rights. Judge Gorsuch does not reflect the will of our state or the constitutional rights of American women and we would oppose his nomination,” she said. Term limit advocacy. One position that might give pause to the lawmakers voting on his nomination is his past advocacy on behalf of term limits.
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In 1. 99. 2 he co- wrote a paper for the Cato Institute that argued term limits are “constitutionally permissible.”“Recognizing that men are not angels, the Framers of the Constitution put in place a number of institutional checks designed to prevent abuse of the enormous powers they had vested in the legislative branch,” he wrote. Wayne Allard, R- Colo., from singing his praises in 2. Gorsuch’s past service as a Senate page. His friend’s clients were sometimes mighty, sometimes humble. Gorsuch won the largest damages ever under the Sherman Anti- trust Act on behalf of a Memphis business, Hansen said in a phone interview Monday. He told a story about when Gorsuch won a much smaller award on behalf of a small gravel pit owner who was cheated out of his fair share of mining royalties. During his closing remarks, Gorsuch told the jurors, ”Look.
This is what they did to my poor client.” Gorsuch paused, reached into his pants pockets, and turned them out.“For Neil, this fight over a few thousand dollars’ worth of dirt was the most important case ever tried,” Hansen has previously recounted. His mother, the late Anne Gorsuch Burford, was Environmental Protection Agency director for the Reagan administration for 2. She slashed the agency’s budget and resigned under fire in 1. Brendan Smialowski, Getty Images. Judge Neil Gorsuch (C) and his wife Marie Louise look on, after US President Donald Trump nominated him for the Supreme Court, at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 3.