Gorsuch

Neil M. Gorsuch sworn in as 113th Supreme Court justice - Washington Post

Colorado appeals court judge Neil M. Gorsuch took his oaths to be the Supreme Court's 113th justice Monday morning, first in a private ceremony at the court and later at a Rose Garden ceremony with the man who nominated him, President Trump.

At the first event, in a grand room inside the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. administered the oath that all federal employees take. The other justices and most of their spouses were on hand, as well as Maureen Scalia and Eugene Scalia, the widow and son of the justice Gorsuch is replacing, Antonin Scalia.

Gorsuch's wife, Louise, held a family Bible, and his daughters, Emma and Belinda, looked on.

On a sunny spring day in the White House Rose Garden, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, for whom the 49-year-old Gorsuch once served as a clerk, led him through a second oath that justices take to impartially interpret the laws "and do equal right to the poor and to the rich."

- Father, we thank You that Justice Gorsuch can now take his seat on the United States Supreme Court. We ask You, Abba, to lead, guide and direct him in every decision he must now make on this Court, in Your name, amen.

- "I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you." (Psalm 32:8)