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Neil Gorsuch will be confirmed to the Supreme Court on April 7, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell guaranteed on Tuesday.

“He’ll be on the floor of the Senate next week and confirmed on Friday,” McConnell told reporters. “We are optimistic that [Democrats] will not be successful in keeping this good man from joining the Supreme Court real soon.”

You and gunga have to be related as much as you both post B S.

SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch said women 'manipulate' maternity leave, Boulder graduates say.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch told law students that "many" female job seekers abuse maternity leave and must disclose plans to become pregnant, a former student has alleged.

The federal judge told a University of Colorado Law School class last year that companies should "ask females about their family and pregnancy plans to protect the company," according to a letter former student Jennifer Sisk wrote to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.

Sisk said Gorsuch, a visiting professor at Boulder, posed a hypothetical scenario in a Legal Ethics and Professionalism class in April that debated if a married job candidate with student debt should disclose to a potential employer that she wants to start a family.

"He asked the class to raise their hands if they knew of a female who had used a company to get maternity benefits and then left right after having a baby," Sisk wrote

When only a fraction of the classroom acknowledged such a tactic, Gorsuch scoffed.

"C'mon guys," Gorsuch allegedly replied, adding that more students should have raised their hands.

Flynn offers to testify on Russia ties in exchange for immunity: report

Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has reportedly told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that he is willing to testify in the investigation of the Trump campaign's potential ties to Russia, in exchange for immunity from prosecution, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Flynn resigned in February, after it was reported that he misled White House staff on his interactions with Russia and had discussed sanctions with Russian officials ahead of President Trump's inauguration.

He had previously denied that he discussed sanctions against Russia for election-related hacking with a Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

This breaking report will be updated.

Mike Flynn Offers to Testify in Exchange for Immunity

Former national security adviser tells FBI, the House and Senate intelligence committees he’s willing to be interviewed in exchange for deal, officials say

WASHINGTON—Mike Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, has told the Federal Bureau of Investigation and congressional officials investigating the Trump campaign’s potential ties to Russia that he is willing to be interviewed in exchange for a grant of immunity from prosecution, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.

As an adviser to Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign, and later one of Mr. Trump’s top aides in the White House, Mr. Flynn was privy to some of the most sensitive foreign-policy deliberations of the new administration and was directly involved in discussions about the possible lifting of sanctions on Russia imposed by the Obama administration.

He has made the offer to the FBI and the House and Senate intelligence committees through his lawyer but has so far found no takers, the officials said.

Mr. Flynn’s attorney, Robert Kelner, declined to comment.

It wasn’t clear if Mr. Flynn had offered to talk about specific aspects of his time working for Mr. Trump, but the fact that he was seeking immunity suggested Mr. Flynn feels he may be in legal jeopardy following his brief stint as the national security adviser, one official said.

Mr. Flynn was forced to resign after acknowledging that he misled White House officials about the nature of his phone conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. during the presidential transition.

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Guess you never served in the military. They don't issue shotguns.

If you're referring to the plane load of cash, that was Iran's money. We returned it to them.

When was my impeachment date??