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		</div><p>Senate Democrats say they now have enough votes to try to block Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch with a filibuster, setting up a showdown with Republicans who plan to confirm him anyway. </p>
<p>The crucial 41st vote came from Democratic Sen Chris Coons of Delaware, who announced his decision on Monday as the Senate Judiciary Committee met to vote on Mr Gorsuch&#8217;s nomination. Mr Coons said that he had decided to oppose President Donald Trump&#8217;s nominee over concerns that include his vague answers in his hearing.</p>
<p>Mr Coons&#8217;s opposition will prevent Republicans from reaching the 60 votes they need to move Mr Gorsuch (pictured) over procedural hurdles to a final Senate vote. Determined to confirm him despite Democratic objections, they will likely change Senate rules later this week to reduce the threshold from 60 to a simple majority.</p>
<p>The starkly divided Senate panel weighed Mr Gorsuch&#8217;s nomination, with Republicans casting the Denver-based appeals court judge as fiercely independent and Democrats complaining that his testimony &#8220;diluted with ambiguity&#8221; makes him the wrong choice.</p>
<p>The Republican-led Judiciary panel was expected to back Mr Gorsuch and send his nomination to the full Senate, most likely on a near-party line vote.</p>
<p>Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley strongly defended Mr Gorsuch as a fair and independent man.<br />
He said Democrats had worked to try and find fault with him, but &#8220;that fault will not stick&#8221;.<br />
&#8220;He&#8217;s a mainstream judge who&#8217;s earned the universal respect of his colleagues on the bench and in the bar,&#8221; Mr Grassley said.</p>
<p>&#8220;He applies the law as we in Congress write it &#8211; as the judicial oath says, without respect to persons. And he refuses to compromise his independence.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, Sen Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the panel, said Mr Gorsuch&#8217;s answers during two days of questioning before the committee were &#8220;diluted with ambiguity&#8221;.<br />
She announced her opposition to the nominee.</p>
<p>&#8220;Judge Gorsuch&#8217;s views were difficult to discern because he refused to answer questions, even basic questions that had been answered by previous nominees,&#8221; Ms Feinstein said.<br />
Democrats are angry in part because Republicans last year blocked President Barack Obama&#8217;s pick for the job after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.</p>
<p>Even before President Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland, Mr McConnell said the next president should choose the nominee, and Mr Grassley&#8217;s committee never held a hearing on Mr Garland.<br />
&#8220;This action by my colleagues was unacceptable and has scarred this process and this body,&#8221; Mr Coons said before announcing his opposition.</p>
<p>With his announcement, 40 Democrats and one independent have announced they will vote to block the nomination on a procedural cloture vote &#8211; a parliamentary step to advance the nomination &#8211; and oppose the choice.</p>
<p>The starkly divided Senate panel weighed Mr Gorsuch&#8217;s nomination, with Republicans casting the Denver-based appeals court judge as fiercely independent and Democrats complaining that his testimony &#8220;diluted with ambiguity&#8221; makes him the wrong choice.</p>
<p>The Republican-led Judiciary panel was expected to back Mr Gorsuch and send his nomination to the full Senate, most likely on a near-party line vote.</p>
<p>Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley strongly defended Mr Gorsuch as a fair and independent man.<br />
He said Democrats had worked to try and find fault with him, but &#8220;that fault will not stick&#8221;.<br />
&#8220;He&#8217;s a mainstream judge who&#8217;s earned the universal respect of his colleagues on the bench and in the bar,&#8221; Mr Grassley said.</p>
<p>&#8220;He applies the law as we in Congress write it &#8211; as the judicial oath says, without respect to persons. And he refuses to compromise his independence.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, Sen Dianne Feinstein of California, the top Democrat on the panel, said Mr Gorsuch&#8217;s answers during two days of questioning before the committee were &#8220;diluted with ambiguity&#8221;.<br />
She announced her opposition to the nominee.</p>
<p>&#8220;Judge Gorsuch&#8217;s views were difficult to discern because he refused to answer questions, even basic questions that had been answered by previous nominees,&#8221; Ms Feinstein said.</p>
<p>Democrats are angry in part because Republicans last year blocked President Barack Obama&#8217;s pick for the job after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.</p>
<p>Even before President Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland, Mr McConnell said the next president should choose the nominee, and Mr Grassley&#8217;s committee never held a hearing on Mr Garland.<br />
&#8220;This action by my colleagues was unacceptable and has scarred this process and this body,&#8221; Mr Coons said before announcing his opposition.</p>
<p>With his announcement, 40 Democrats and one independent have announced they will vote to block the nomination on a procedural cloture vote &#8211; a parliamentary step to advance the nomination &#8211; and oppose the choice.</p>
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