Listen as Larry spoke with Ken Klukowski, General Counsel at The American Civil Rights Union and Senior Legal Editor at Breitbart News Network, regarding Justice Gorsuch’s first year serving on the Supreme Court.
Klukowski: Gorsuch 1st Year on Supreme Court Begins Lasting Legacy for President Trump
Justice Neil Gorsuch celebrates his one-year anniversary on the Supreme Court on Tuesday, having been sworn in on April 10, 2017. His first year reveals what could become one of President Donald Trump’s greatest legacy achievements.
The sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13, 2016, rocked the nation, instantly becoming one of the top issues in the 2016 presidential contest. Although President Obama nominated someone to fill Scalia’s seat, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) announced that they believed the American people should decide this matter, and so the Senate would not hold any hearings on Obama’s nominee or vote on the nomination before November’s election.
While still a candidate, President Trump announced he would nominate a successor to Scalia who would be worthy of the conservative judicial icon. He took the unprecedented step of issuing a list for public vetting of potential Supreme Court nominees for Scalia’s replacement, the second version of which included Gorsuch, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. [Read More]
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