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President Trump announced Tuesday, on prime-time television, his Supreme Court pick selecting Neil Gorsuch, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.  If confirmed, Gorsuch will fill the SCOTUS seat left by Chief Justice Antonin Scalia who died in 2016.   Trump selects Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court. Photo/AP. “Judge Gorsuch has a superb intellect, an unparalleled legal education, and a commitment to interpreting the Constitution according to its text", said Trump. "He will make an incredible Justice as soon as the Senate confirms him.” [ Gorsuch rules on Hobby Lobby  case]. While some consider Gorsuch to be “warm”, “open”, “generous” and willing to “find common ground”, Democratic Minority Speaker of House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said in a statement issued soon after the announcement about Gorsuch: “In the Hobby Lobby case, Judge Neil Gorsuch revealed his eagerness to single out women’s health for discrimination and e...

REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON THE PASSING OF U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA For almost 30 years, Justice Antonin “Nino” Scalia was a larger-than-life presence on the bench -- a brilliant legal mind with an energetic style, incisive wit, and colorful opinions.     U.S. Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia.  He influenced a generation of judges, lawyers, and students, and profoundly shaped the legal landscape.  He will no doubt be remembered as one of the most consequential judges and thinkers to serve on the Supreme Court.  Justice Scalia dedicated his life to the cornerstone of our democracy:  The rule of law.  Tonight, we honor his extraordinary service to our nation and remember one of the towering legal figures of our time.      Antonin Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey to an Italian immigrant family.  After graduating from Georgetown University and Harvard Law School, he worked at a law firm and taug...

The Senate, once again, show they have less interest in moving the United States of America forward, and are more intent on finding ways to block just about any and everything President Obama tries to do- even if it means looking back as far as two years ago to do it. Here's what's being reported from the Associated Press (AP). The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the president's power to fill high-level vacancies with temporary appointments, ruling in favor of Senate Republicans in their partisan clash with President Barack Obama. The high court's first-ever case involving the Constitution's recess appointments clause ended in a unanimous decision holding that Obama's appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in 2012 without Senate confirmation were illegal. Obama invoked the Constitution's provision giving the president the power to make temporary appointments when the Senate is in recess. Problem is, the court said, the Senate was not ac...

Even before the nomination was official, and just hours after President Obama appointed Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, the nay-sayers were out in full force with questions about the former dean of Harvard Law School . A group of law professors have openly questioned Kagan’s diversity record at Harvard. During her time as dean, Kagan made thirty-two tenured and tenure-track academic hires. Of these thirty-two, only one was a minority, and only seven were women. In 1997, Kagan as a White House adviser, urged then-President Clinton to support a ban on late-term abortions. (Not exactly a bad thing, right?). Further detractors have also criticized her as being "anti-military" while she served as solicitor general and have referred to her as "an extremist bent on harming the military's efforts to hire some of the best law school graduates in the country." In her defense, Kagan's Predecessor at Harvard Law School, Robert Clark , has a few words of his ...