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Who nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court?

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Neil McGill Gorsuch is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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He was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017, for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed Antonin Scalia, who died almost one year.

Photo credit: Al Drago/ The New York Times

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Gorsuch was born and spent his early life in Denver, Colorado, then lived in Bethesda, Maryland, whiles attending Georgetown Preparatory School.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University, a Juris Doctor from Harvard University, and after practicing law for 15 years, received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Law from the University of Oxford, which he attended as a Marshall Scholar.

When nominated, Gorsuch was a sitting judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. This is President Trump’s first nomination to the nation’s highest court.

The Senate Judiciary Committee began holding hearings regarding Gorsuch’s confirmed

 


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