ONE year ago, Neil Gorsuch took the oath of office as America’s 113th Supreme Court justice. Donald Trump’s nominee to replace the late Antonin Scalia was confirmed in the Senate by a historically slim 54-45 margin more than a year after Republicans refused to even consider Merrick Garland, Barack Obama’s nominee. When Justice Gorsuch took his seat on the bench on April 10th 2017, the Supreme Court had only dozen cases left to be heard that term. Today, as Justice Neil Gorsuch nears the end of his first full term, he faces some difficult votes. He and his eight colleagues have considered a smaller caseload than usual. But it features some fraught cases: on labour arbitration; gerrymandering; searches and seizures in the digital age—as well as Mr Trump’s travel ban, financing for public-sector unions and LGBT discrimination.
Justice Gorsuch is, thus far, filling the role of a Republican-tapped jurist predictably, matching or surpassing his predecessor’s conservative credentials. But a few of this year’s pending cases may give Justice...Continue reading
Source: United States https://ift.tt/2v60qOa
EmoticonEmoticon