It almost seems a troll-like plan for President Trump to nominate former President Barack Obama’s colleague from law school, Neil Gorsuch, to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat.

The seat has been open since just over a year ago after Justice Antonin Scalia’s death. Some Democrats, still upset over Republican legislators’ decision not even to hold a vote for President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, see Trump’s nominee as a relief, as they see Gorsuch as a judge whose views are fairly moderate, while others see Gorsuch’s appointment as nothing more than the Republican party filling the court with a Republican-appointed, conservative majority. No matter what one thinks, Gorsuch is President Trump’s nominee and, according to Josh Gerstein of Politico, he needs 60 votes to become a  Supreme Court Justice.

Gorsuch has two siblings, an older sister and a younger brother, and his life has always revolved around law. Born in Colorado, Gorsuch has a strong academic background, as all Supreme Court Justices seem to have and, coming from a wealthy family, he attended, according to Fox News Politics, Harvard and Oxford Universities, along with Columbia University where he earned his Bachelor of Arts. Gorsuch has been on Trump’s list for nomination since before Trump was even elected president. President Trump spoke very highly of Gorsuch while nominating him. According to The Washington Post, Trump said in his speech he has fulfilled his promise in “finding the best Judge in America.”

According to USA Today,  Gorsuch has been a judge who prominently uses the practice of textualism, which is the belief that judges should evaluate laws on the plain texts of the statutes, and not impose outside factors.

Gorsuch’s use of this is very similar to the man he would succeed if he is confirmed, Antonin Scalia.  Scalia used originalism, which is similar in thinking to Gorsuch’s legal theory. In Scalia’s originalism, he relied on the U.S. Constitution. According to NPR, Scalia described his legal thinking, “The Constitution that I interpret and apply is not living but dead, or as I prefer to call it, enduring. It means today, not what current society much less the court thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted.”

Why might Trump choose Gorsuch from a reported list of 20 people on his list? Some experts believe that Gorsuch and Trump have an agreement in which Gorsuch will work to help the President keep his campaign promise to overturn Roe v. Wade. Gorsuch is currently working for the U.S. Court of Appeals tenth circuit.