Enlarge / President Donald Trump shakes hands with Judge Neil Gorsuch after nominating him to the Supreme Court during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Tuesday. If confirmed, Gorsuch would fill the seat left vacant with the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016. (credit: Getty Images)
“The qualifications of Judge Gorsuch are beyond dispute. He is a man our country needs badly to ensure the rule of law and the rule of justice… I only hope both Democrats and Republicans can come together, for once, for the good of the country.”
That’s what President Donald Trump said late Tuesday when he nominated Neil Gorsuch, a 49-year-old federal appeals court judge, to the Supreme Court. Gorsuch was tapped to replace the deceased Justice Antonin Scalia, and Trump has said all along he wanted a new justice to follow in the footsteps of Scalia’s originalist approach. Anyone identifying as an originalist theoretically interprets the Constitution in a manner they believe is consistent with what the drafters and adopters of the document understood it to mean. Such a philosophy can lead to conservative results, though even Scalia had been accused of practicing “contradictory originalism.”
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