What Happens After the Nomination? How a Nominee becomes a Supreme Court Justice

On January 31, 2017, President Trump nominated Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, a Coloradan and judge on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals (“Tenth Circuit”), to fill the open seat on the United States Supreme Court that has been empty since Justice Antonin Scalia died on February 13, 2016.i   Judge Gorsuch was nominated to the Tenth […]