Senate Confirms Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court.

The new justice is likely to consider how voting rights should be protected and to weigh in on whether to expand the breadth of the Second Amendment. He may even cast the deciding vote in a major case on the separation of church and state.

Republicans voted to change Senate rules, upending a longstanding tradition by eliminating the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees. The move paved the way for Judge Neil Gorsuch to be confirmed on a simple majority vote after what could be some of the most contentious debate in Senate history.