Sources close to the White House say Trump’s team, after a day of “creating suspense,” has told Denver-based 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch that he will be the Supreme Court nominee.
Heat Street‘s sources in the legal community say that a number of former Gorsuch aides are being asked to help form a team that will lead Gorsuch through the nomination process, including Denver-based attorney Michael Davis, who clerked for Gorsuch from 2006 through 2007.

If the call holds true, Gorsuch, 49, will be one of the youngest judges to face a Supreme Court confirmation hearing. A graduate of Harvard Law (he was there at the same time as Barack Obama), as well as Columbia and Oxford Universities, Gorsuch has a familiar background for SCOTUS nominees: he’s well-educated, served in the Justice Department, and clerked for Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy.

He may be best known for his recent decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby upholding the rights of conscientous objectors to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive requirement.

Earlier Tuesday, word came down that two potential Supreme Court Justices, Gorsuch and Pittsburgh-based 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Thomas Hardiman, are reportedly on their way to Washington DC for President Trump’s 8pm announcement.


But while former White House occupants have leaked news of a potential SCOTUS appointment early, the Trump Administration seems, even late Tuesday, to be making it deliberately hard for legal journalists to make a final determination that Gorsuch has the nod.

According to the Washington Post‘s Supreme Court reporter, the White House was looking to “build suspense” by inviting both men to meet with the President this afternoon.

Sources close to the process told CNN that Gorsuch was most likely to get the nod, but that Trump is known to change his mind once he’s conferred with advisers, especially his family (that’s how he ended up with Mike Pence as his Vice President over either Newt Gingrich or Chris Christie).
Gorsuch is, of course, a safe bet. But Donald Trump is also known for thinking “outside the box,” and that’s why Hardiman remains in the mix, even as Gorsuch’s nomination has been all but released from the White House.

Hardiman is a Georgetown Law School graduate, and was, like many of Trump’s supporters, a blue collar admission who worked his way through law school driving a DC cab at night. He’s also a close personal friend of Trump’s sister, Marion Trump Barry, who serves with Hardiman on the 3rd Circuit—and Trump takes his family’s input on major decisions very seriously.

In recent days, eagle-eyed law gossip sites spotted Hardiman being followed around by US marshals.

Fortunately for Gorsuch, it looks like his claim to the bench is pretty safe, and he won’t have to endure an Oval Office Apprentice-style boardroom elimination, where he earns his place on the illustrious panel by planning and executing a charity event starring Gary Busey.
:Heatstreet

And the winner is..



Gorsuch

bogarde73 wrote on Feb 1^st, 2017 at 11:19am:

And the winner is.. Gorsuch

Now wait for the doomsday prophecies about him, by people who had never heard of him until now.

Could be worse I suppose. Giuliani for instance.

Guliana would never have been a candidate.
It has to be a serious experienced justice to get through the nomination.

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Feb 1^st, 2017 at 11:23am:

Could be worse I suppose. Giuliani for instance.

He's never been a Judge, he was a DA.

Fuzzball wrote on Feb 1^st, 2017 at 12:57pm:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Feb 1st, 2017 at 11:23am: Could be worse I suppose. Giuliani for instance. He's never been a Judge, he was a DA.

Why would that stop Trump from making a poor choice? Steve Bannons on the NSC

Neil seems fairly ... innocuous.
A steady decision ?


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Judge Neil Gorsuch, 49, is President Donald Trump's choice to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated a year ago by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Gorsuch has the typical pedigree of a high court justice. He graduated from Columbia, Harvard and Oxford, clerked for two Supreme Court justices and did a stint at the Department of Justice. He attended Harvard Law with former President Barack Obama. On Tuesday, Obama's former ethics czar, Norm Eisen, another classmate, tweeted: "Hearing rumors Trump's likely Supreme Court pick is Neil Gorsuch, my (and President Obama's!) 1991 Harvard Law classmate.If so, a great guy!" Since 2006, he has served on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, in Colorado. He is an outdoorsman who fishes, hunts and skis. On the court, conservatives hope he will become the intellectual heir to Scalia, long the outspoken leader of the conservative bloc. “The real appeal of Gorsuch nomination is he’s likely to be the most effective conservative nominee in terms of winning over Anthony Kennedy and forging conservative decisions on the court,” said Jeffrey Rosen of the National Constitution Center. “He’s unusual for his memorable writing style, the depth of his reading and his willingness to rethink constitutional principles from the ground up. Like Justice Scalia, he sometimes reaches results that favor liberals when he thinks the history or text of the Constitution or the law require it, especially in areas like criminal law or the rights of religious minorities, but unlike Scalia he’s less willing to defer to regulations and might be more willing to second-guess Trump’s regulatory decision.” Gorsuch is a favorite of legal conservatives because he has sharply questioned a three-decade old legal precedent that many on the right believe has given too much power to the regulatory state. The landmark 1984 Supreme Court ruling involving the Chevron oil company held that courts should defer to federal agencies’ reasonable interpretations of ambiguous federal laws. In a ruling last August in an immigration case, Gorsuch questioned the wisdom of that doctrine, arguing that the meaning of the law is for judges to decide, not federal bureaucrats. “Where in all this does a court interpret the law and say what it is?” Gorsuch asked in an extended digression on the subject. “When does a court independently decide what the statute means and whether it has or has not vested a legal right in a person? Where Chevron applies that job seems to have gone extinct.” Other rulings give conservatives confidence that Gorsuch is a strong supporter of religious freedom rights. Last September, he joined a dissent arguing that requirements for contraception coverage in Obamacare ran roughshod over the rights of religious non-profits. Gorsuch also wrote a 2000 law journal article and a 2006 book arguing strongly against assisted-suicide laws. The practice of allowing the terminally ill to end their lives is now legal in six states and is on the verge of being legalized in Washington, D.C. While Gorsuch has a longer Washington resume than other judges considered by Trump, his family’s experience in the city was a searing one. Gorsuch’s mother, Anne Burford Gorsuch, ran the Environmental Protection Agency at the outset of the Reagan administration. She was forced to resign in 1983, facing a criminal investigation and a House contempt of Congress citation over records related to alleged political favoritism in toxic-waste cleanups. She maintained her innocence and was never charged.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/who-is-neil-gorsuch-bio-facts-background-political-views-234437

... wrote on Feb 1^st, 2017 at 11:22am:

bogarde73 wrote on Feb 1st, 2017 at 11:19am: And the winner is.. Gorsuch Now wait for the doomsday prophecies about him, by people who had never heard of him until now.

He's from Denver, you walking asshat. He is known here quite well. Gorsuch is a despicable piece-of-poo. No question Trump picked him to be the reliable vote against abortion and for all manner of legal privileges and exemptions for religious groups and institutions.

He has a known history of defending corrupt police action against democratic rights. He is another filthy capitalist who sides with businesses against consumers and workers in the vast majority of the cases he has handled.

But what is really interesting about this asshole is his mother, Anne Gorsuch Burford.
https://1001movienights.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/norman-bates.jpg

She was appointed administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1981 by Reagan. Her task was the complete dismantling anti-pollution regulations. At the time, back in 1981, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives sought EPA records of how money in the so-called Superfund for cleaning up toxic waste was being spent, Gorsuch defied congressional subpoenas, was cited for contempt and was eventually forced to resign.

Section 1 of Article 3 of the Constitution:

The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.

I'm sure the son will meet the same fate.

Marla wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2017 at 2:54am:

He has a known history of defending corrupt police action against democratic rights.

How much better if he defended low life killers, not just cops? ;)

lee wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2017 at 11:10am:

Marla wrote on Feb 2nd, 2017 at 2:54am: He has a known history of defending corrupt police action against democratic rights. How much better if he defended low life killers, not just cops? ;)

Lee, learn how to have an argument before posting your usual off the cuff horseshit.

Marla wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2017 at 11:11am:

Lee, learn how to have an argument before posting your usual off the cuff horseshit.

Why would I want an argument with an airhead like you?

Good idea to run for the Senate BTW; you can use the slogan-

"Elect A Simpleton to the Senate"

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah, still not seeing it, lee. Other than you're a clueless retard who is about to be a poster child for diabetes.

Marla wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2017 at 11:17am:

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah, still not seeing it, lee. Other than you're a clueless retard who is about to be a poster child for diabetes.

Oooh, that smarts. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Marla wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2017 at 11:17am:

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah, still not seeing it, lee. Other than you're a clueless retard who is about to be a poster child for diabetes.

Now stop referring to yourself in every post Marlon, self-recommendation is no recommendation at all.....there's a good little man.... ;D ;D ;D

Let me know the next time you're allegedly in Colorado, asshole. I'd love to introduce myself and then see if your trolling ass has any teeth left. 

Marla wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2017 at 11:23am:

Let me know the next time you're allegedly in Colorado, asshole. I'd love to introduce myself and then see if your trolling ass has any teeth left.

My knees are knocking Marlon........ya sure know how to intimidate a man, but I don't punch effeminate 'mother.....ers' who are all mouth..... ;D ;D ;D

Just let me know. You traveling troll

Marla wrote on Feb 2^nd, 2017 at 11:30am:

Just let me know. You traveling troll

You'll need your little gun.......no not that one between your legs.......Marlon... ;D ;D ;D

Like I said, let me know.