Markey mentioned how Trump had promised during the presidential campaign that anyone he nominated to the Court would be anti-abortion and pro-gun rights, what the senator described as litmus tests.
The oath was administered during the White House ceremony by Justice Anthony Kennedy, whom Gorsuch once served as a law clerk.
Gorsuch took the oath of office-taken by public servants in all US government branches-at the private ceremony scheduled for 9 a.m.at the Supreme Court.
For his part, Gorsuch said: " I am humbled by the trust placed in me today.
During 11 years on the federal appeals court in Denver, Gorsuch mirrored Scalia's originalist approach to the law, interpreting the Constitution according to the meaning understood by those who drafted it.
They stole a Supreme Court seat by refusing even to consider President Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland, while recording a record number of filibusters against the former president's judicial nominees.
Republican lawmakers refused to consider Barack Obama's nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, a conservative, who died in February past year. And we should all keep in mind just how much hard work and unyielding dishonesty went into stealing this Supreme Court seat. During his Senate confirmation hearing, Gorsuch declined to answer about whether Roe v. Wade and other important court precedents were properly decided. Republicans got around the roadblock by changing the Senate's rules to eliminate the 60-vote threshold needed to bring high court nominations to the floor.
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This removed the ability for nominees to the Supreme Court to be filibustered.
Gorsuch, watched by his daughters Emma and Bindi, promised to be a "faithful servant of the constitution and laws of this great nation".
As a Justice Department lawyer from 2005-2006, Gorsuch led all government litigation arising from the United States war on terror, including its defense of the extraordinary rendition of Khaled el-Masri, a German-Lebanese citizen who was handed over to the Central Intelligence Agency in Macedonia in 2003 and flown to Afghanistan.
"He will decide cases based not on personal preferences, but a fair and objective reading of the law", Trump said.
Donald Trump, in possibly his biggest win to date as president, celebrated Neil Gorsuch's ceremonial swearing-in to the Supreme Court at the White House on Monday, nodding to the fact that not everything has been easy in his first 100 days in the White House. Prestigious Supreme Court clerkships for Justices Byron White - the first justice from Colorado - and Kennedy.
"Today is a historic day, as a fine man and excellent judge has now become our nation's 113th Supreme Court justice", Malcolm said. He joins a court that has five Catholics and three Jews.
Gorsuch's confirmation comes at the end of a long, unseemly, petulant, politically and civically corrosive sequence of events that has gone on now for more than a year, and from which nearly no one involved has emerged unsullied.
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