“It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people’s representatives,” said Gorsuch, 49, a jurist on the Court of Appeals based in Colorado who was nominated to fill the opening created last year by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
Like Scalia, Gorsuch believes in an “originalist” interpretation of the Constitution, but he’s described as being more interested in winning over colleagues than Scalia, who was just as likely to go it alone as to compromise.
An undercurrent of Trump’s first choice for the court was whether it would make Kennedy feel secure enough to retire and let this president choose the person who would succeed him. Perhaps picking Gorsuch, one of Kennedy’s former clerks, was the right move to put Kennedy at ease.
Watch Neil Gorsuch's speech after the announcement of his nomination. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Post; video by The Post)
Democrats warned of a possible filibuster to block Gorsuch, noting that Republicans blocked former president Barack Obama’s final Supreme Court nominee for most of 2016. “This is a stolen seat,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said. That will put pressure on Republicans, who have been agonizing over whether to change longstanding Senate rules to break Democratic resistance.
It involved a meeting at Trump’s residence at Trump Tower and ferrying Gorsuch from a neighbor’s house in Colorado to an awaiting military jet.
From consulting with recently departed Obama-era political appointees to setting up social media accounts to leak word of pending changes, many federal employees are exploring options for expressing their opposition to President Trump's policies. The resistance, while less visible than protests on the streets, is potentially more troublesome to the new administration.
The party boycotted one Senate committee, then invoked an arcane rule in another — theatrics that prompted a bitter showdown with Republicans who accused them of paralyzing the formation of a new administration.
A raid in Yemen’s Bayda governate was the first counterterrorism operation approved by Trump. And the death of Chief Special Warfare Operator William “Ryan” Owens marked the first combat death of Trump’s young presidency.
Stephen K. Bannon. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
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For hours, at the gathering in Philadelphia, the mysterious intruder strolled around what should have been one of the most tightly secured buildings in the country — posing, organizers say, as “a spouse of an elected official.” Secret recordings of the closed sessions, including one in which Republicans fretted over the Affordable Care Act, were later emailed to media outlets.
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The apparent move came a week after President Trump issued a presidential memorandum urging approval to construct the pipeline, which has become a central battle for environmentalists.
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Three children, ages 8, 6, and 4, were in the car in Wisconsin when their father lost consciousness, authorities say. He survived and is facing three counts of child neglect, among other charges.
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More than 10 people were killed and dozens more wounded in some of the heaviest shelling in months between army and anti-government forces in the country. The U.S. State Department called for an immediate ceasefire. Russia supports the anti-government separatists.
President Trump's top trade adviser said Germany was using a “grossly undervalued” euro to “exploit” its trading partners. He also said a proposed trade agreement between the United States and Europe was dead, citing Germany's currency.
