From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily.

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It's Tuesday, April 18th.

Adam, were you in the room today with Justice Gorsuch?

I was. I watched him through three hours of arguments in three different cases.

Wow, that's endurance.

Sure was.

Adam Liptak is our Supreme Court reporter.

All right, so give us the scene on this first day for the newest Supreme Court Justice.

So for more than a year, we've had eight chairs behind the Supreme Court bench today.

There's a ninth one on the far right and Justice Gorsuch comes in strikingly tall,

towering over Justice Sotomayor, takes his seat.

Chief Justice Roberts welcomes him in a sort of formal way, wishing him good luck and a long career

in what the Chief Justice called their common endeavor.

And Justice Gorsuch set a couple of nice words in response about how warmly his colleagues had welcomed him.

And then we were off into the first of three very minor technical arguments.

All right, so tell me about the case, or I guess, cases that Judge Gorsuch and these eight other judges were hearing.

Well, one involved where you file civil service complaints, another about what you have to establish

for standing for the right to sue if you're intervening in someone else's lawsuit.

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