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Headline Roundup February 1st, 2017

Gorsuch Tapped for Supreme Court

Summary from the AllSides News Team

President Trump on Tuesday selected Neil Gorsuch, a well-respected Conservative, to succeed Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, setting up a nasty confirmation battle with Senate Democrats stung over the GOP blockade against former President Obama’s pick.

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Neil Gorsuch: The case for and against Trump's Supreme Court nominee
Neil Gorsuch: The case for and against Trump's Supreme Court nominee

USA TODAY

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For his first Supreme Court nomination, President Trump wanted as staunch a conservative as he could get confirmed. Neil Gorsuch emerged as the guy who looks like he could thread the needle.

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Neil Gorsuch: President Trump’s anti-choice pick for the Supreme Court
Neil Gorsuch: President Trump’s anti-choice pick for the Supreme Court

Salon

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Within minutes of President Trump’s nomination of federal judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, several hundred demonstrators had converged on the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. to protest his selection.

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Neil Gorsuch: In the Mold of Antonin Scalia
Neil Gorsuch: In the Mold of Antonin Scalia

CBN

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President Donald Trump has made his first nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court: Neil Gorsuch, a federal judge on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.

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