ADVERTISEMENTAmericans have a generally positive first impression of Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump’s nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by Justice Antonin Scalia, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds. Forty percent of Americans approve of the choice of Gorsuch and 28 percent disapprove, with the remaining 32 percent unsure. A plurality of the public, 43 percent, thinks the Senate should vote to confirm Gorsuch, with 28 percent saying it should not do so. In weighing their votes on Gorsuch, many Senate Democrats are taking into consideration President Barack Obama’s failed nomination of Merrick Garland last year for the same position. By a 31-point margin, 53 percent to 22 percent, they say the Senate should vote against him.

Source: Huffington Post February 05, 2017 19:23 UTC