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Neil Gorsuch Vote, Political Party, Political Views, Senate Vote, Family, Nomination, Ideology

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Neil McGill Gorsuch is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Neil Gorsuch was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017, and has served since April 10, 2017.

Neil Gorsuch family

Neil Gorsuch is married to Marie Louise Gorsuch, a British citizen and they met at Oxford.

They married at her Church of England parish church in Henley-on-Thames in 1996. They live in Boulder, Colorado and have two daughters.

Neil Gorsuch political party

Neil Gorsuch is a Republican.

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Neil Gorsuch political views

Neil Gorsuch has been described as a committed conservative who supported the Gulf War and congressional term limits on “a campus full of ardent liberals”.

It should be noted that Former President Barack Obama was one of Neil Gorsuch’s classmates at Harvard Law.

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Neil Gorsuch nomination

During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, candidate Donald Trump included Gorsuch, as well as his circuit colleague Timothy Tymkovich, in a list of 21 judges whom Trump would consider nominating to the Supreme Court if elected .

However, after Trump took office in January 2017, unnamed advisers listed Gorsuch in a shorter list of eight, who they said were the leading contenders to be nominated to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

On January 31, 2017, Donald Trump announced the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

Neil Gorsuch was 49 years old at the time of the nomination, making him the youngest nominee to the Supreme Court since the 1991 nomination of Clarence Thomas, who was 43.

Neil Gorsuch senate vote

The Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court on April 7, 2017, by a vote of 54–45.

Neil Gorsuch ideology

Neil Gorsuch is a proponent of textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in interpreting the United States Constitution.

Along with Justice Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch is also an advocate of natural law jurisprudence.


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