A Life-Time Term

associate justice neil gorsuch official portrait by Franz Jantzen (CC BY-SA)

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associate justice neil gorsuch official portrait by Franz Jantzen (CC BY-SA)

Kim Houchin, Copy Editor

The election may have ended, but the controversies did not.

President Donald Trump announces his Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.

The Supreme Court nominee, Gorsuch, was named on Tuesday, January 31. He will be replacing former Judge Antonin Scalia, who passed away in February of 2016.

Gorsuch is the youngest nominee in 25 years at the age of 49. A Supreme Court Judge serves a life term.

This is not the first controversial pick that Trump has made. Gorsuch has a shady past with the LGBT+ community. Gorsuch also sided with the opinion that the contraceptive mandate violated their religious beliefs. Gorsuch saw Scalia as a role model and called him “the lion of the law.”

In light of this decision, it was rumored that Gorsuch founded a club named ‘Facism Forever’. This was quickly debunked as fake news that has grown rapidly ever since the election.

Trump stated that he had committed to finding “the very best judge in the country” before he nominated Gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman. According to Trump, this was the “single most important issue for them when they voted for me as president.”

Gorsuch will also be the first Protestant on the Court in years.

Democrats stated that they would fight “tooth and nail” against the nomination. They also hoped that with three of the judges being in their 70s and 80s, Trump would have more than one spot to fill.

 

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