Bitter partisanship and potential damage to the Senate were studiously ignored during Monday’s ceremony swearing in Gorsuch to the supreme courtThe absence of three men hovered over the White House rose garden on Monday as Neil Gorsuch was sworn in as the 113th justice of the US supreme court.
One was Antonin Scalia,the conservative justice whose death 14 months ago created an abrupt vacancy on the court. Another was Merrick Garland, the judge who stood on the same spot in March final year as Barack Obama issued a dire warning that whether Republicans blocked his nomination it would imperil American democracy.
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Source: theguardian.com