On January 31, 2017, soon after taking office, Republican President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed Antonin Scalia, who h
President Trump announcing the nomination, accompanied by Gorsuch and his wife, Louise
Neil Gorsuch with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, February 1, 2017
Ticket for the March 2017 Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee
Judge Gorsuch testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, March 22, 2017
A filibuster is a tactic used in the United States Senate to delay or block a vote on a measure by preventing debate on it from ending. The Senate's rules place few restrictions on debate. In general,
Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination
…to consider Garland's nomination, keeping the vacancy open through the end of Obama's presidency on January 20, 2017. Democratic Senators launched a filibuster against Gorsuch's nomination to block his confirmation. However, Republicans invoked the "nuclear option", eliminating the filibuster with respect to…
United States Senator Warren Austin speaking during an all night filibuster, July 1939
Political cartoon depicting the multiple-day Republican filibuster of the Ship Purchase Act (1915).
Headline in The Philadelphia Inquirer of November 16, 1919, reporting the first use of cloture by the United States Senate