When Chairman Chuck Grassley asked Gorsuch if he would "have any trouble ruling against the president who appointed you", Gorsuch replied, no, and "that's a softball".Democratic senators continued to criticize Gorsuch on his dissent in the truck driver case, with Dianne Feinstein asking him "will you be for the little men" and Democrat On the third day of hearings, March 22, Gorsuch continued to answer committee members' questions. Republican That same day, the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Tenth Circuit in an On April 3, 2017, the Senate Judiciary Committee endorsed the Gorsuch nomination, sending it to the full Senate for final action by an 11–9Gorsuch needed to win a simple majority vote of the full Senate (51 votes) to be confirmed; however, a During the last day of committee hearings, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that he would filibuster the nomination.On April 6, 2017, Democrats launched a filibuster against Gorsuch's nomination.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Neil Gorsuch, who authored the majority's opinion, ... during which Gorsuch, appointed to the high court by Mr. Trump, emerged as the likely swing vote. WASHINGTON — Justice Neil Gorsuch is following the path of Supreme Court colleagues-turned-authors in a new book in which he laments the loss of civility in public discourse.
From 1995 to 2005, Gorsuch was in private practice with the law firm of Gorsuch is the son of David Ronald Gorsuch (1937–2001)Instead of joining an established law firm, Gorsuch decided to join the two-year-old boutique firm Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel (now In 2002, Gorsuch penned an op-ed criticizing the Senate for delaying the nominations of Gorsuch served as Principal Deputy to the Associate Attorney General, Just over two months later, on July 20, 2006, Gorsuch was confirmed by unanimous During his time on the Tenth Circuit, ten of Gorsuch's law clerks went on to become Supreme Court clerks, and he was sometimes regarded as a "In 2013, Gorsuch joined a unanimous panel finding that federal courts could not hear a challenge to Colorado's In 2009, Gorsuch wrote for a unanimous panel finding that a court may still order criminals to pay In 2013, Gorsuch joined a unanimous panel finding that intent does not need to be proven under a bank fraud statute.On January 31, 2017, President Trump announced his Trump formally transmitted his nomination to the Senate on February 1, 2017.On April 3, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved his nomination with a party-line 11–9 vote.On April 7, 2017, the Senate confirmed Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court by a 54–45 vote, with three Democrats (Gorsuch wrote his first U.S. Supreme Court decision for a unanimous court in In 2020, Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion in the combined cases of Gorsuch joined Justice Thomas's dissent from denial of certiorari in Gorsuch dissented from the denial of an application for a stay presented to Chief Justice John Roberts in the In December 2018, Gorsuch dissented when the Court voted against hearing cases brought by the states of Louisiana and Kansas to deny Medicaid funding to In February 2019, Gorsuch sided with three of the court's other conservative justices voting to reject a stay to temporarily block a law In March 2019, Justice Gorsuch departed from his four fellow conservative justices, joining the four more liberal Justices (in two plurality opinions) in a 5–4 majority in In May 2019, Gorsuch again joined the four more liberal justices in a decision favorable to the treaty rights of Native Americans, signing onto In July 2020, Gorsuch again joined the liberal justices to make a 5-4 majority in In July 2020, the Supreme Court ruled, in two separate 7-2 decisions, that the Manhattan District Attorney could access President Trump's tax records, but returned the case of Congressional access to the lower courts, pending the outcome of that case.Gorsuch was described by Justin Marceau, a professor at the In the book, Gorsuch makes clear his personal opposition to Gorsuch has been considered to follow in Scalia's footsteps as a Gorsuch has been active in several professional associations throughout his legal career.In May 2019 it was announced that Gorsuch would become the new chairman of the board of the He has authored two non-fiction books. His first book, When the couple returned to the United States they started attending Holy Comforter, an Gorsuch is the recipient of the Edward J. Randolph Award for outstanding service to the Department of Justice, and of the Harry S. Truman Foundation's Stevens Award for outstanding public service in the field of law.Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United StatesThe same 1993 Term, Gorsuch's Harvard Law School classmates David T. Goldberg (HLS 1991) and
Both of Gorsuch's parents were lawyers, and his mother served in the Colorado House of Representatives from 1976 to 1980. Gorsuch, 49, was appointed to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals by President George W. Bush in 2006. A fourth-generation Coloradan, Gorsuch was born in Denver, Colorado, and attended Christ the King, a K-8 Catholic school.