Draggingtree Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Scotus: Potential nominee profile: Neil Gorsuch By Eric Citron on Jan 13, 2017 at 12:53 pm Neil Gorsuch was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit by President George W. Bush on May 10, 2006, and confirmed shortly thereafter. Both his pre-judicial resumé and his body of work as a judge make him a natural fit for an appointment to the Supreme Court by a Republican president. He is relatively young (turning 50 this year), and his background is filled with sterling legal and academic credentials. He was a Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford, graduated from Harvard Law School, clerked for prominent conservative judges (Judge David Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, as well as Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy of the Supreme Court), and was a high- ranking official in the Bush Justice Department before his judicial appointment. He is celebrated as a keen legal thinker and a particularly incisive legal writer, with a flair that matches — or at least evokes — that of the justice whose seat he would be nominated to fill. In fact, one study has identified him as the most natural successor to Justice Antonin Scalia on the Trump shortlist, both in terms of his judicial style and his substantive approach. Continue reading » Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Who Is On The SCOTUS “Short List?” Hugh Hewitt Jan. 17 2017 I spoke with John Malcolm, Director of the Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal & Judicial Studies about President-elect Trump’s selection process for a Supreme Court nominee Tuesday morning: Audio Snip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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