Neil Gorsuch Confirmed to Supreme Court

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by: Colorado Pols

Neil Gorsuch.

No surprise here — the drama had ended earlier this week — but as the Washington Post reports:

The U.S. Senate confirmed Neil M. Gorsuch to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, capping more than a year of bitter partisan bickering over the ideological balance of the nation’s highest court.

On a vote of 54 to 45, senators confirmed Gorsuch, 49, a Denver-based judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit. He will become the 113th person to serve on the Supreme Court and is scheduled to be sworn in Monday.

Gorsuch replaces former justice Antonin Scalia, whose sudden death in February 2016 sparked a year-long partisan fight over the ideological balance of the court. Gorsuch will be thrust into the final weeks of the Supreme Court’s term. The last round of oral arguments for the term is scheduled to begin April 17, and the term ends in June…

…Gorsuch will be sworn in Monday by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who will administer the constitutional oath in a private ceremony at 9 a.m. at the Supreme Court. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy will administer the judicial oath at a public ceremony at the White House later that day.

Senator Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) voted YES to approve Gorsuch, while Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Denver) voted NO (as Bennet explained on Thursday).

14 thoughts on “Neil Gorsuch Confirmed to Supreme Court”

Gilpin Guy says:

April 7, 2017 at 12:01 pm

So much for evaluating judges based on their merit and not for that little character behind their name in the voting records.

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RepealAndReplace says:

April 7, 2017 at 12:32 pm

Who was the one Repug who was awol for the vote?

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1. Genghis says:
  
  April 7, 2017 at 4:50 pm
  
  Some winger from Georgia who's recovering from back surgery.
  
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Moderatus says:

April 7, 2017 at 1:22 pm

Shame on Colorado Pols. Stop saying you even care about Colorado. If you did you would have wanted a Coloradan on the Court.

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1. unnamed says:
  
  April 7, 2017 at 1:49 pm
  
  Where is my article, Moldy?
  
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2. Les Ismore says:
  
  April 8, 2017 at 8:03 am
  
  Putting a hard right idealogue on the court is okay if he/she lives near you?
  
  No thanks!
  
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  1. Voyageur says:
    
    April 8, 2017 at 8:35 am
    
    Well, it does mean one less Republican in Boulder. Frankly, that cuts that city's right-wing population in half. Jon Caldera will get lonely.
    
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Arvadonian1 says:

April 7, 2017 at 1:32 pm

Grand Theft Justice….

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itlduso says:

April 7, 2017 at 5:34 pm

So, a guy named Mitch came into my home and stole my TV! He even admits as much. Did he go to jail? No! He even gets to use my TV and doesn't have to return it to me. Oh, and I’m supposed to accept this quietly because he might want to steal my other TV.

I guess the rule of law is over in America.

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Duke Cox says:

April 8, 2017 at 11:22 am

There is no honor among thieves.

The Trump Billionaire Club has been given the keys to the Treasury by Mitch McConnell and the Republican Kleptocracy. The Republican Party has co-opted American democracy and is dead set on killing the democratic process and instituting a plutarchy, in which power will be handed down like it is in all dictatorships….to the hand-picked successors of the New American Aristocracy. Trump and the Republican Gang of Billionaires will soon be arranging for Jared Kushner to be the next governor of New York.

Mitch has secured his place in history. He was a principle architect of the return of the Dark Ages… to America.

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1. MichaelBowman says:
  
  April 8, 2017 at 12:14 pm
  
  This will look GREAT on his resume (except for the part where daddy paid $2.5 million to Harvard to get him admitted).
  
  Jared Goes To Iraq! A Picture Story
  
  Now all he has to do is go home, push one of his father-in-law’s other helpers out of the National Security Council, address the use of chemical weapons by the Iran and Russia-supported Syrian Assad regime, take care of ISIS and al Qaeda, run the new Office of American Innovation, broker peace in the Middle East, run all of the United States’ diplomatic relations with Canada, China, and Mexico, reform America’s criminal justice system, and solve the country’s opioid crisis, with help from the man who sent his dad to jail.
  
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  1. mamajama55 says:
    
    April 8, 2017 at 1:06 pm
    
    So much of this administration lends itself to the kindergarten treatment.
    
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    1. MichaelBowman says:
      
      April 8, 2017 at 3:47 pm
      
      Perhaps Jared or Spicey could break it to the big guy that the intertubes 'are forever'?!?
      
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  2. MichaelBowman says:
    
    April 8, 2017 at 10:52 pm
    
    If only those dastardly Democrats weren't blocking all his nominees….
    
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