FILE - In this Jan. 31, 1953, file photo, Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Jackson poses arriving at the Statler Hotel in Washington, for the dinner of the Alfalfa Club where he was "nominated" for president in a fun fest. On the night Judge Neil Gorsuch was nominated to fill Justice Antonin Scalia‚Äôs seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, he was thinking about history. ‚ÄúThe towering judges that have served in this particular seat on the Supreme Court, including Antonin Scalia and Robert Jackson, are much in my mind at this moment,‚Äù Gorsuch said in the East Room of the White House following his nomination by President Donald Trump. (AP Photo)