{"id":119222,"date":"2017-04-07T11:11:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T16:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119222"},"modified":"2017-04-07T11:41:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T16:41:23","slug":"sen-confirms-gorsuch-u-s-supreme-court-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119222","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Gorsuch US Supreme Court Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-118822\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Gorsuch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"163\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Senate has confirmed Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, bringing a contentious 14-month partisan battle to a close after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was 54-45 on Friday. The victory gives President Donald Trump&#8217;s 49-year-old nominee a lifetime spot on the court and his party a much-needed political win after failing to pass legislation on health care and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>The final confirmation vote came after Senate Republicans rewrote the chamber&#8217;s rules, voting to eliminate the 60-vote filibuster threshold on Supreme Court nominees. The change allowed the Senate to proceed to the final vote with a simple majority.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats opposed Gorsuch in part because Senate Republicans blocked former President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominee, Merrick Garland, last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Supreme Court says Neil Gorsuch will be sworn in as the 113th justice on Monday in separate ceremonies at the court and the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Justices take two oaths, one required by the Constitution and the other set by federal law.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice John Roberts will administer the constitutional oath to Gorsuch in a private ceremony in the justices&#8217; conference room at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Later Monday, Justice Anthony Kennedy will ask his former law clerk and new colleague to take the second oath in a public ceremony at the White House. The court did not give a time for the White House event.<\/p>\n<p>Gorsuch will officially be a member of the court once he takes the two oaths.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Senate has confirmed Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, bringing a contentious 14-month partisan battle to a close after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. The vote was 54-45 on Friday. The victory gives President Donald Trump&#8217;s 49-year-old nominee a lifetime spot on the court and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119233,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119222\/revisions\/119233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}