GORSUCH CONFIRMED TO SUPREME COURT IN KEY TRUMP VICTORY

The U.S. Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch to become the newest associate justice on the Supreme Court Friday, elevating Donald Trump’s nominee after a corrosive partisan confrontation that could have lasting impacts for the Senate and the court. Vice-President Mike Pence was presiding as the Senate voted 54-45 in favour of Gorsuch, pictured, whose conservative rulings in Denver make him an intellectual heir to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, whose seat he will fill. Gorsuch won support from 51 of the chamber’s Republicans and three moderate Democrats up for re-election in states Trump won last fall. The outcome was a major win for Trump, his biggest congressional victory to date, as well as for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who kept Scalia’s seat open after the justice’s death in February 2016.