{"id":73149,"date":"2017-02-01T03:22:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T10:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-senators-react-to-supreme-court-nomination\/"},"modified":"2017-02-01T10:22:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T10:22:18","slug":"colorado-senators-react-to-supreme-court-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-senators-react-to-supreme-court-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado senators react to Supreme Court nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cJudge Gorsuch is one of our country\u2019s brightest legal minds with significant experience as a federal judge and a private litigator,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gardner.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado<\/a>, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Gorsuch serves at the federal appellate court in Denver, and is known as an avid outdoorsman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudge Gorsuch also adds to the court\u2019s Western perspective, with his understanding of uniquely Western issues like water and public lands issues,\u201d Gardner said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bennet.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet<\/a>\u2019s office released the following statement: \u201cAs a fellow Coloradan, Michael congratulates Judge Gorsuch and his family. He intends to review Judge Gorsuch\u2019s record carefully in the coming weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previous rulings by Gorsuch give conservatives faith he would fill the seat with dignity, and that his more moderate views can potentially convince Justice Anthony Kennedy to side with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudge Gorsuch\u2019s record \u2026 shows that he will defend the original intent of our Founding Fathers and preserve the fundamental rights of Americans,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/tipton.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Scott Tipton<\/a>, R-Cortez, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Attorney General Cynthia H. Coffman, a Republican, also released a statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudge Neil Gorsuch is an extremely qualified and well-respected U.S. Supreme Court nominee. He not only has a brilliant legal mind, but has both the experience and the temperament needed to serve on our nation\u2019s highest court. Judge Gorsuch\u2019s deep understanding and reverence of the law will serve him and the American people well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\">Shira Stein is a reporting intern for The Durango Herald in Washington, D.C., and a student at American University. Reach her at <a href=\"mailto:sstein@durangoherald.com\">sstein@durangoherald.com<\/a>, and follow her on Twitter @stein_shira.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJudge Gorsuch is one of our country\u2019s brightest legal minds with significant experience as a federal judge and a private litigator,\u201d Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado, said in a statement. Gorsuch serves at the federal appellate court in Denver, and is known as an avid outdoorsman. \u201cJudge Gorsuch also adds to the court\u2019s Western perspective, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,23,24,25,22],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-u-s-rep-scott-tipton","tag-u-s-sen-cory-gardner","tag-u-s-sen-michael-bennet","tag-us-supreme-court"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73149"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}