Nevadans react to president’s Supreme Court nominee

“He’s really earned his stripes”, she said.

In its guide to the nominee, the Alliance for Justice (AFJ) calls Gorsuch a “far-right extremist”.

Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley described Mr Gorsuch as an “illegitimate and extreme nominee”. Garland cited Scalia 2.16% of the time – slightly more than Gorsuch, who referenced Scalia in 2.06% of his citations.

The US president named the conservative Neil Gorsuch on Tuesday night to fill the vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia almost a year ago.

At 49 he’s the youngest nominee to the United States Supreme Court in more than 20 years.

“The Supreme Court’s work is vital not just to a region of the country, but to the whole, vital to the protection of the people’s liberties under law and to the continuity of our Constitution, the greatest charter of human liberty the world has ever known”, he said.

Mr Gorsuch stayed at a friend’s home before being taken to the White House for the Tuesday evening announcement. “His record must be thoroughly vetted to ensure his views and judicial philosophy are not out of the mainstream”, Warner said.

But the Senate leader has said repeatedly that, one way or another, Mr Gorsuch will be confirmed. Put Gorsuch on the hot seat while keeping an open mind. Cloture – the procedural motion to end a filibuster – was attempted for the first time on a nominee in 1968 as President Lyndon Johnson tapped Abe Fortas as chief justice of the Supreme Court, according to the Congressional Research Service. “Judge Gorsuch is that type of jurist: fair and unbiased”.

Gorsuch is a federal appeals court judge from Colorado, who is seen as a conservative intellectual. Trump could get another chance to replace a justice, especially an aging liberal such as 83-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg or 78-eight-year-old Stephen Breyer, and that would undoubtedly lead to a battle royal in the Senate. “After all, he was confirmed unanimously by the Senate when he was appointed to the Tenth Circuit Court”.

House said it’s ironic that Republicans are criticizing Democrats when most GOP senators refused to meet previous year with Merrick Garland, former president Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court. Some Democrats have vowed to return the favor this year.

Even when they were in the minority in the Senate, Republicans stalled highly qualified Obama nominees and used them as leverage in unrelated budget decisions, even as Americans had to wait longer to be heard in federal courts. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of NY said on Wednesday: “I plan to stand up for individuals over corporations and oppose his nomination, and I will insist that his nomination meet a traditional 60-vote threshold”. Sherrod Brown, who said Gorsuch’s rulings haven’t favoured American workers or women’s rights.

Meanwhile, Fell said Gorsuch impressed her with his humility. He clerked for both Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy before a short stint in private practice.