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BREAKING: Trump Names Neil Gorsuch To Supreme Court

Donald Trump has named Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court to fill the spot created when Justice Antonin Scalia passed away last February.

Gorsuch currently is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He is a native of Colorado and holds degrees from Columbia, Harvard, and Oxford.

Gorsuch is described as an "originalist" and has been compared to Scalia.