NewsMax reports:
President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, was confirmed as an associate Justice of the Supreme Court by the Senate Friday morning, after Republicans tore up the Senate’s voting rules to allow him to ascend to the high court over furious Democratic objections.
While the votes were still being tallied, Gorsuch by 11:45 a.m. had reached the 51-vote threshhold required for confirmation under the “nuclear” rules change.