President Trump Picks Appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch for SCOTUS

TRUMP TAPS JUDGE GORSUCH FOR SCOTUS …

Last night President Donald J. Trump nominated federal appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court. Trump could not have selected a better candidate for the job to replace the deceased U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

“Standing here in a house of history, and acutely aware of my own imperfections, I pledge that if I am confirmed I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great country.”

President Trump nominated Colorado federal appeals court judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court on Tuesday, opting in the most important decision of his young presidency for a highly credentialed favorite of the conservative legal establishment to fill the opening created last year by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

Gorsuch, 49, prevailed over the other finalist, Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania, also a federal appeals court judge, and Trump announced the nomination at a televised prime-time event at the White House.

“Standing here in a house of history, and acutely aware of my own imperfections, I pledge that if I am confirmed I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great country,” said Gorsuch, with his wife Louise at his side.

Gorsuch pledged to be impartial and independent, and respectful of his place in government.

“It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people’s representatives,” he said. “A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge.”