Federal Courts and Nominations
TV (BBC): Elizabeth Wydra Discusses Justice Gorsuch on BBC Television
CAC President Elizabeth Wydra appeared on BBC television to discuss President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, sworn in as the Court’s next Justice to fill the vacancy left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia with nearly one year left in President Obama’s term, and kept open by Senate Republicans who blocked Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, from even getting a hearing.
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