Federal Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, moves a step closer to Senate confirmation this week, and Democrats, despite their threat of a filibuster, have virtually no chance to stop him.

After a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week marked by the Democratic minority’s futile efforts to unearth Gorsuch’s views on past or future legal issues, the committee is prepared to send his nomination to the Senate floor on a party-line vote.

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Gorsuch “assiduously avoided saying anything,” said Pamela Karlan, a Stanford law professor and former Justice Department attorney in Obama’s administration. Even when the nominee appeared to be declaring his independence from Trump by telling a senator that “no man is above the law,” Karlan said, “The question is, where’s the law?”