This year’s Supreme Court term may be more memorable for the intrigue and political drama taking place outside the Court than the import of the decisions the Court issued. On April 10, 2017, Judge Neil Gorsuch of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals was sworn in as the 113th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Gorsuch’s elevation followed a year of partisan battles in the U.S. Senate over whether to consider then-President Obama’s nominee for the high court following Justice Antonin Scalia’s sudden death in February 2016.
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