Neil Gorsuch

Trump Narrows Down Supreme Court Nominee List To 3

... met with Trump — are William Pryor, Neil Gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman, the person said, speaking anonymously because he was not authorized to speak publicly about internal decisions. Pryor, 54, is an Alabama-based judge on the 11 th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Gorsuch, 49, is on the Denver-based 10 th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Hardiman, 51, sits on the 3 rd U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pittsburgh. All three were nominated by President George W. Bush for their current posts. Trump has promised to seek someone in the mold of conservative icon Antonin Scalia, who died nearly a year ago after serving on the Supreme Court for more than 29 years. Senate Republicans prevented President Barack Obama from filling the seat, a political gamble that paid off when Trump was elected. Trump was scheduled to meet later Tuesday with Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc Connell, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Dianne Feinstein to discuss the court vacancy. Mc Connell ...

Trump Narrows High Court Search, To Name Conservative Next Week

... seriously” at a short list of candidates. Among the frontrunners are three conservative jurists: Neil Gorsuch, a judge on the Denver-based 10 th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals; Thomas Hardiman, who serves on the Philadelphia-based 3 rd U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals; and William Pryor, a judge on the Atlanta-based 11 th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. “Judges Gorsuch and Hardiman and Pryor have received a lot of attention from the president. He knows who they are. He is familiar with their records. He’s clearly impressed with their backgrounds,” Leo said. All three were appointed to the bench by Republican former President George W. Bush. “I’ll be making my decision this week. We’ll be announcing next week. We have outstanding candidates, and we will pick a truly great Supreme Court justice,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. The leading candidates all have strong conservative credentials. Gorsuch joined a ruling in 2013 saying that owners of private ...

Potential Nominee Profile

... commerce clause.” These doctrines treat the commerce clause not only as a grant of power to Congress to make laws regulating interstate commerce, but as a kind of presumptive limitation on the power of states to make laws that either unduly burden or unfairly discriminate against interstate commerce, without regard to whether Congress has ever passed a law in the relevant area. Because — as its name suggests — the dormant commerce clause cannot actually be found in the text of the Constitution, Scalia eventually came around to the view that it should not be a thing, and refused to endorse any future expansions of the doctrine. For example, in 2015, in a dissenting opinion in Comptroller v. Wynne , Scalia stated: “The fundamental problem with our negative Commerce Clause cases is that the Constitution does ...

The Trump Presidency On January 24

... restricting immigration from several Middle Eastern and African countries, according to several congressional aides and immigration experts briefed on the matter. AUTO INDUSTRY. Trump urges the chief executives of the Big Three U. S. automakers, General Motors Co, Ford Motor Co and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV, to build more cars in the country. MANUFACTURING AND REGULATION. Trump signs an executive order directing that the permitting process and regulatory burden for domestic manufacturers should be streamlined to reduce what he calls an "incredibly cumbersome, long, horrible" system. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Agriculture Department will hold off on some rules as part of a freeze on regulations imposed by the Trump administration, trade groups say. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. Trump's administration has moved since last week to curb the flow of information from several government agencies whose mandate affects environmental issues, in actions that appear designed to tighten control and discourage dissenting views. {n L 1 N 1 FE 5 FE]. SUPREME ...

Get To Know Supreme Court Short Lister Neil Gorsuch

... Gorsuch of Colorado appears to be rising in the final days of President Trump's search to fill the Supreme Court's vacant seat. (screenshot). Get to know Supreme Court short lister Neil Gorsuch. By Ryan Lovelace ( @Lovelace Ryan D ) • 1/25/17 12:01 AM. Ryan Lovelace Supreme Court Reporter The Washington Examiner __link__ __link__/images/static/authors/Lovelace-3.jpg. The stock of appeals court Judge Neil Gorsuch of Colorado appears to be rising in the final days of President Trump 's search to fill the Supreme Court 's vacant seat. Pundits are increasingly suggesting the 10 th Circuit Court of Appeals judge as a leading contender to fill the void created by Justice Antonin Scalia's death almost a year ago, but Trump's team has been mum. People soon may become familiar with Gorsuch, a conservative follower of Scalia's brand of jurisprudence. Here's a primer on him. Following Scalia. Gorsuch, an appointee of President George W. Bush, is a Harvard Law ...

5 Fast Facts You Need To Know

... Two years later, Bush appointed him to be judge of the U. S. District Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. However, it took the U. S. Senate seven months to vote on the appointment. Hardiman’s nomination was approved in a 95-0 vote. As Newsweek notes , in a December 2006 confirmation hearing, Hardiman said that he wouldn’t have a problem enforcing decisions from higher courts, even if he disagreed with them. “I have no hesitation in applying a law regardless of what I might think about it,” Hardiman told the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time. “I think any good judge recognizes his or her place in our constitutional government, and that place is not to upset the will of the people as expressed through their elected representatives.”. 3. Hardiman Ruled in 2010 That Strip-Searching all Those Arrests ...

Phyllis Schlafly's Son Fears Federalist Society Pushing Trump To Nominate Pro-abortion Justice

... Society is pushing Neil Gorsuch to be nominated. Gorsuch is a federal judge for the U. S. Court of Appeals for the 10 th Circuit. He was nominated for that seat in 2006 by President George W. Bush. Although the Denver Post reports Gorsuch “brings strong conservative bonafides that would — at least in theory — re-establish a court majority,” Schlafly does not think he is the right pick. “Gorsuch is not pro-life,” Schlafly alleged in the email. “I knew him in law school and afterwards and he never said anything pro-life. In his writings he uses only pro-abortion terminology, and he has cited favorably a landmark pro-abortion decision. His church is publicly and strongly against pro-life laws.”. Schlafly continued. On top of that, Gorsuch thinks courts should not correct their own mistaken precedents, which means he would ...

Anti-abortion Activists Say Trump's Court Picks Aren't Extreme Enough

... "After hearing testimony that a woman had endured, among other things, a co-worker pinching her breast at work, Jones retorted, 'Well, he apologized,'" wrote the Observer. In 2014, lawyers and law students filed a j udicial misconduct complaint against Jones over a speech she gave at a 2013 Federalist Society event. Jones allegedly said the death penalty provided a "positive service" to defendants because they are "likely to make peace with God only in the moment before imminent execution." She also allegedly said, "African Americans and Hispanics are predisposed to crime" and "prone to commit acts of violence." (Because there was no recording of Jones' remarks, the complaint against her was dismissed.). But for anti-abortion activists, her record is stellar: She was part of a three-judge panel that upheld a 2012 mandatory sonogram law in Texas, forcing doctors to give women seeking an abortion medically unnecessary information designed to persuade them to change their minds. In 2014, she was on a panel of judges considering a challenge to a Texas abortion law that closed 22 abortion clinics in the state. ...

Meet Neil Gorsuch, Said To Be A Leading Scotus Contender

... will announce his choice for the U. S. Supreme Court next week, report the Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) and USA Today. Judge William Pryor of the of the Atlanta-based 11 th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals drew press attention following reports that Donald Trump had interviewed him on Jan. 14. But Pryor is likely to draw criticism from both the right and left, according to the Los Angeles Times. In a comment angering liberals, Pryor once said Roe v. Wade is “the worst abomination in the history of constitutional law.” But conservatives will likely disagree with an opinion he joined, which found that Georgia officials violated the equal protection clause when they fired an employee for being a transgender woman. Gorsuch, a Harvard law school graduate, formerly clerked for Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony M. Kennedy. He also has a Ph. D. in legal philosophy from Oxford University. A SCOTUSblog profile of Gorsuch calls the judge “a natural fit for an appointment to the Supreme Court by a Republican president.” The blog sees many parallels ...

Denver’s Neil Gorsuch Is Among Donald Trump’s Top Choices For Supreme Court Justice

... contenders — who all have met with Trump — are Denver native Neil Gorsuch, William Pryor and Thomas Hardiman, the person said, speaking anonymously because he was not authorized to speak publicly about internal decisions. Pryor, 54, is an Alabama-based judge on the 11 th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Gorsuch, 49, is on the Denver-based 10 th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Hardiman, 51, sits on the 3 rd U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pittsburgh. All three were nominated by President George W. Bush for their current posts. Related Articles. December 11, 2016 Tim Tymkovich: Coloradan through and through would give SCOTUS missing perspective. Trump has promised to seek someone in the mold of conservative icon Antonin Scalia, who died nearly a year ago after serving on the Supreme Court for more than 29 years. Senate Republicans prevented President Barack Obama from filling the seat, a political gamble that paid off when Trump was elected. Trump was scheduled to meet later Tuesday with Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mc Connell, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Dianne Feinstein to discuss the court vacancy. Mc Connell wrote on ...