As Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s pick to fill the vacant U.S. Supreme Court seat created by the death last year of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the second day on Tuesday, lawyers in New Jersey have their own questions they’d like the committee to ask the nominee. Gorsuch is expected to undergo several days of questioning before there is a vote by the committee and eventually by the full Senate. Republicans are hoping to have Gorsuch, 49, confirmed next month.
During his first day before the committee, Gorsuch, who currently sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, emphasized his support for the independence of the judiciary, but insisted that “judges are not politicians in robes.”
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