Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch faces first week after being sworn in

| WASHINGTON, D.C. (LC) Neil Gorsuch, 49, was sworn in on Monday as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. President Trump commented as he swore in Gorsuch in the White House rose garden, “I got it done in the first 100 days.” Trump said, “You think that’s easy?” Gorsuch will be the 113th justice on the court and will fill the seat held by Justice Antonin Scalia. Gorsuch, a conservative, is a proponent of the judicial philosophy of “originalism,” which Scalia popularized. Originalism is the theory that the words in the Constitution should be interpreted as they were understood at the time they were … Continue reading Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch faces first week after being sworn in