David French:
It’s official. Here’s the New York Times:
Judge Neil M. Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate on Friday to become the 113th justice of the Supreme Court, capping a political brawl that lasted for more than a year and tested constitutional norms inside the Capitol’s fraying upper chamber.
The development was a signal triumph for President Trump, whose campaign last year rested in large part on his pledge to appoint another committed conservative to succeed Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February 2016. However rocky the first months of his administration may have been, Mr. Trump now has a lasting legacy: Judge Gorsuch, 49, could serve on the court for 30 years or more.
“Signal triumph” is right. One might even say yuuuge triumph. Obviously enormous credit goes to Mitch McConnell, who properly stood firm against the weight of elite opinion to block Merrick Garland and then expertly executed the nuclear option to guarantee Gorsuch’s confirmation. It’s important to state, however, that McConnell’s job would have been far more difficult — if not impossible — had Trump not made such an excellent Supreme Court pick.
Trump delivered on a campaign promise that some of us (me included, honestly) were skeptical he’d keep, and he delivered with an even better judicial choice than we could reasonably expect.
I see where whining little california snowflake Kamela Harris is whining becuase Gorsuch will rule on law instead of on feelings boy talk about a all time loser She should be nominated for the 2017 snowflake award
There was NO “constitutional norm” affected….Republicans simply put the process back as it was before 2003 when the Democrats changed it for lower court Justices and appointees which the Republicans were holding up.
Democrats simply cannot play by the rules and change them when they feel it will give them an advantage, then karma comes back to bite them on the butt….