Americans are clueless about the Supreme Court

The majority opinions were the opinions of the three judge court.

Whitehouse pointed to a $10 million ad campaign being mounted by supporters of Gorsuch’s nomination but whose actual backers had not been disclosed.

Later in the day, Gorsuch was asked about Trump’s attacks on federal judges, like those who sidelined his initial travel ban.

The veteran appeals court judge responded that if Congress wanted there to more ad disclosure, it had “robust authority” to do so. Republicans say he’s as good as it gets. Dianne Feinstein of California about the Supreme Court’s 2008 ruling affirming the right of people to keep guns in their homes for self-defense – District of Columbia v. Heller – Gorsuch said, “Whatever is in Heller is the law and I follow the law”.

The confirmation hearings for Gorsuch wrap up today with testimony from legal scholars and others supporting and opposing his confirmation.

“We find Senator Schumer’s announcement truly disappointing because it breaks with the tradition of how the Senate has handled Supreme Court confirmation votes in modern times and represents the type of partisanship that Americans have grown exhausted of”, Trump spokesman Sean Spicer said.

Democrats’ most influential witness was Jeff Perkins, whose disabled son was the plaintiff in a 2008 case that’s become a hiccup for the judge.

That would require them voting in a change of rules. He is always “shocked” that women are still asked that question, the nominee said.

For Estrada, by contrast, a majority of the Senate went on record supporting his confirmation, so it was the 60-vote threshold for cloture obstructing an up-or-down vote that defeated his nomination.

Judge Neil Gorsuch faced his first day of questions in the second day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing on Tuesday.

Gorsuch was nominated by President Trump in February to fill the seat left open by Scalia’s death in 2016.

The Supreme Court seat has sat vacant for over a year because Republicans refused to give President Obama’s choice of Merrick Garland a confirmation hearing.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that Gorsuch would be confirmed before the Senate’s mid-April recess. Gorsuch will wield enormous power and help shape the country’s laws for generations to come.

For months, Senate Republicans have threatened what is often called the “nuclear option” – exempting Supreme Court nominees from filibusters.

On Wednesday night, it looked like Chuck Schumer had fractured his spine, figuratively speaking: A Politico report suggested that “a group of Senate Democrats” was willing to facilitate Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court, for the right price.

Gorsuch, 49, has spent more than a decade on the 10th United States circuit court of appeals in Denver, and would fill the 13-month vacancy on the supreme court created by the death of Antonin Scalia previous year.