Trump names Gorsuch as Supreme Court nominee

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US President Donald Trump has nominated Neil Gorsuch for the US Supreme Court.

The 49-year-old federal appeals court judge is expected to restore the court's conservative majority, and he becomes the youngest nominee to the nation's highest court in more than 25 years.

The Republicans last year refused to consider Democratic President Barack Obama's nominee to fill the vacancy, caused by the death of conservative justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016.

Trump said Gorsuch's resume is "as good as it gets," before expressing his hope that Republicans and Democrats can come together on this nomination for the good of the country.

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"Judge Gorsuch has outstanding legal skills, a brilliant mind, tremendous disciple, and has earned bipartisan support," said Trump.

"Depending on their age, a justice can be active for 50 years. And his or her decisions can last a century or more, and can often be permanent," Trump added.

Gorsuch is a judge on the Denver-based 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals and was appointed to that post by Republican President George W. Bush in 2006. He is the youngest US Supreme Court nominee since Clarence Thomas was selected in 1991, who was 43 at the time.

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