Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court

President Donald Trump yesterday nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.

The president said Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge based in Denver, is “a man who our country really needs, and needs badly, to ensure the rule of law and the rule of justice.”

Democrats are promising to fight Trump’s pick after a nearly a year of Republican refusals to consider President Barack Obama’s choice to succeed Justice Antonin Scalia.

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