Edit - Neil M. Gorsuch is nominated for SC.
Time: 8pm Eastern.
Where to watch? All major networks will be broadcasting.
Where to stream? FB stream.
The Judges (from NYT):
Thomas M. Hardiman
Neil M. Gorsuch
Time: 8pm Eastern.
Where to watch? All major networks will be broadcasting.
Where to stream? FB stream.
The Judges (from NYT):
Thomas M. Hardiman
Judge Hardiman, a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Georgetown University Law Center, has built a reputation as a conservative over more than a decade on federal courts and earlier in private practice.
He was first appointed to the Federal District Court in Pittsburgh in 2003 by President George W. Bush and then elevated four years later to the Third Circuit. In that position, he has served alongside Mr. Trump's sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, who is said to have recommended him for the Supreme Court.
Judge Hardiman, 51, has earned a reputation as a defender of gun rights, with several of his most notable opinions coming in Second Amendment cases.
He has also frequently taken the side of law enforcement. In one case, in 2010, Judge Hardiman's majority opinion allowed New Jersey officials to strip-search people arrested for any offense before admitting them to a jail, regardless of whether the authorities had reason to suspect the possession of contraband.
And in a case last May, Judge Hardiman signed on to a decision that ruled asylum seekers were not entitled to file habeas corpus petitions to prevent or postpone their removal from the country while challenging their deportation orders.
Neil M. Gorsuch
Judge Gorsuch's credentials are the most traditional of the finalists: degrees from Columbia, Harvard Law School and Oxford, as well as a clerkship on the Supreme Court.
His mother, Anne M. Gorsuch, served as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Ronald Reagan. And after his clerkship, Judge Gorsuch spent a decade in private practice at a Washington law firm and two years at the Justice Department.
Mr. Bush appointed Judge Gorsuch, 49, to the 10th Circuit in 2006. There, he has earned a reputation as an originalist, trying to interpret the Constitution in accord with the understanding of those who drafted and adopted it. That approach generally leads to conservative decisions, but Judge Gorsuch has written little on several issues of interest to the right, including gay rights and gun control.
He does, however, have a strong record of favoring religious freedom over other values, built largely on two prominent cases in which he sided with employers who objected for religious reasons to providing some forms of contraception coverage. Both cases, which involved Hobby Lobby Stores and the Little Sisters of the Poor, were eventually considered by the Supreme Court.
