President Trump Nominates Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court

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BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court.

Gorsuch, 49, is currently a judge on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. He was nominated by President George Bush in 2006 and confirmed by the Senate in a voice vote.

Gorsuch clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then for Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court. He attended Harvard Law and has a Ph.D. from Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar. In legal circles, he’s considered a gifted writer. Like Scalia, he’s both a textualist and an originalist.

He is the author of “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” which looks at the legal and ethical issues surrounding assisted suicides. In the book, he concludes that any form of euthanasia should not be legalized.

If confirmed, Gorsuch would be the first Supreme Court justice to serve alongside his former boss — a justice for whom he/she clerked.

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