Timeline of events that led to Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Wednesday, July 06, 2022

Neil Gorsuch confirmed – April 7, 2017

Judge Neil Gorsuch (L) is sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court by Supreme Court Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy (R) , as U.S. President Donald J. Trump (C) watches with Louise Gorsuch in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., April 10, 2017. | (Photo: REUTERS/Carlos Barria)

In 2017, the Senate confirmed Judge Neil Gorsuch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit to the U.S. Supreme Court, with him filling the seat left vacant the year before when Justice Antonin Scalia died.

Gorsuch had been nominated by Trump in January 2017 and was previously unanimously confirmed to the Tenth Circuit by the Senate in 2006. His confirmation to the Supreme Court came in a vote of 54-45.

"We celebrate the confirmation of a justice who we anticipate will keep his promise to adhere to a textual and originalist view of the Constitution," said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins in a statement at the time.

Democrats largely opposed his nomination, expressing opposition to his conservative views and anger over the GOP-controlled Senate’s refusal to hold a hearing for President Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland.

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