In picking Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge based in Colorado, President Trump opted for a highly credentialed favorite of the conservative legal establishment. The 49-year-old nominee believes in an “originalist” interpretation of the Constitution and would seem destined to be a solidly conservative vote on the ideologically split court.
   
 
News Alert Tue., Jan. 31, 2017 8:04 p.m.
 
 
Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch, a proponent of strictly interpreting the Constitution, to fill Supreme Court vacancy
In picking Gorsuch, a federal appeals court judge based in Colorado, President Trump opted for a highly credentialed favorite of the conservative legal establishment. The 49-year-old nominee believes in an “originalist” interpretation of the Constitution and would seem destined to be a solidly conservative vote on the ideologically split court.
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