WASHINGTON ― The Senate confirmed Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court on Friday, ending an ugly, weeks-long fight between Democrats who demanded a different nominee and Republicans who changed the rules to go around them entirely. Following the vote, the Supreme Court announced that Gorsuch would be sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts as the nation’s 101st associate justice in a private ceremony on Monday. “He’s going to make an incredible addition to the court,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) raved ahead of the vote. When that didn’t happen, they made history on Thursday by staging a party-line filibuster of the Supreme Court nominee. Republicans retaliated by making history, too: They unilaterally blew up the rules so it only takes 51 votes, instead of 60, to advance any Supreme Court nominee.

Source: Huffington Post April 07, 2017 15:45 UTC