Confirmations

Gorsuch Will Be Confirmed On April 7, Per Senate Majority Leader

Will the Republicans have to go nuclear for this to happen?

Justice Neil Gorsuch?

Justice Neil Gorsuch?

[Judge Gorsuch will] be on the floor of the Senate next week and confirmed on Friday. … No Supreme Court justice has ever been stopped with a partisan filibuster. … We are optimistic that [Democrats] will not be successful in keeping this good man from joining the Supreme Court very soon. We’re going to get Judge Gorsuch confirmed.

— Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, announcing that Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch would have his confirmation hearing — and actually be confirmed — on April 7, prior to a two-week recess in Congress.


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