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THE SUN BALTIMORE LIGHT FOR ALL Informing more than 1 million Maryland readers weekly in print and online WEDNESDAY Price $2. Our 180th year, No. 32 February 1, 2017 Trump nominates Gorsuch to court Conservative appeals court judge faces a fight in the Senate CAROLYN KASTERAP President Donald Trump introduces 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch. Inside who could help determine U.S.

law on gun rights, immigration, police use of force and transgender rights. Trump made his announcement with trademark showmanship, on the grand stage of the White House's East Room before a national audience in prime time, creating an aura of mystery or in the more critical view of some, a reality-show atmosphere around what is traditionally a staid, sober process. Trump praised Gorsuch's experience on the bench, academic credentials and, perhaps chiefly, a successful track record in securing bipartisan Senate confirmation. "The qualifications of Judge Gorsuch are beyond dispute," Trump said. "I only hope that both Democrats and Republicans can come together for once for the good of the country." After more than a week of rapid-fire executive actions, Trump cast the announcement as another example of his delivering on a key campaign promise: to honor the legacy of Scalia by choosing someone of similar intellectual heft and ideological zeal.

Perhaps no other cause See SUPREME COURT, page 13 By Michael A. Memoli Washington Bureau WASHINGTON President Trump nominated federal Judge Neil M. Gorsuch on Tuesday to fill the Supreme Court seat of the late Antonin Scalia, choosing from his short list an appeals court judge from Denver seen as most likely to win Senate confirmation. Because Scalia was a stalwart conservative, Trump's choice is not likely to change the balance of the court. But it does set the stage for abruising partisan fight over a man Trump to name Md.

U.S. Attorney Rosenstein to Justice Department NEWS PG 13 Some immigration bans may be made permanent NEWS PG 6 Betsy DeVos gets panel's OK for education secretary NEWS PG 4 Guinness plans a Balto. Co. brewery Old Seagram's plant near Relay would seek to draw tourists with a taproom AMY DAVISBALTIMORE SUN Former Baltimore City Councilman Nick J. Mosby, during his first day in the State House as the newly appointed delegate for Baltimore's 40th District, speaks with Del.

Marice Morales, Democrat from Montgomery County's 19th District. GENERAL ASSEMBLY Ex-Councilman Mosby seeks to revive his career By Natalie Sherman The Baltimore Sun The maker of the famed Guinness stout said Tuesday it wants to build a brewery and taproom at its former whiskey bottling plant near Relay in southern Baltimore County, reviving the site with the brand's first U.S. brewery in more than 60 years. Diageo tentatively plans to makeover the hulking former Seagram's buildings on Washington Boulevard as not only a brewery but as a tourism destination like its original St. James's Gate brewery in Dublin, Ireland.

The brewery would focus on new beers for the U.S. market while the brand's classic Irish dry stout would continue to be made in Dublin. The proposal is contingent on the General Assembly's approving a new kind of liquor license that would allow the scale of on-site sales Diageo envisions for the brewery. Diageo would invest $50 million in the project and could create up to 70 jobs, including 40 in brewing, warehousing and packaging. About 30 people could work on the visitor side of the operation, which would include a restaurant Diageo hopes to begin construction this spring and open in fall 2017, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of imports of its stout to the United States.

"What we're looking to do here is to really be able to build off the brand, bring new products in and be able to tell our story," said Tom Day, president of Diageo Beer Company USA, a Connecticut-based unit of Diageo. The plant is designed to serve as a kind of test ldtchen for new products, Day said. The firm also sees it as away to boost consumer connection with the brand, at a time when competition from local craft options has grown. The brewery would breathe new life See GU I ESS, page 10 Delegate assumes his new General Assembly seat By Yvonne Wenger The Baltimore Sun Nick J. Mosby was restless leg bouncing, hands fidgeting as he watched a group of Democratic insiders resurrect his political career.

He'd given up a seat on the Baltimore City Council to run for mayor last year, a losing gamble. Now he was in a South Baltimore union hall for a vote that would send him to Annapolis this week as the city's newest state delegate. "Resiliency is in my blood," Mosby said. "This year has definitely come with its curveballs But I have learned a tremendous amount about myself as a public servant, as a father, as a community leader, as a husband. "I am better than I was a year ago." Back then, his political rise and that of his wife, Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J.

Mosby, seemed meteoric. But their careers hit turbulence and the couple retreated from the public eye. Mosby, 37, started his new job in the Maryland House of Delegates this week after he was chosen to fill a vacancy triggered by former legislator Catherine Pugh's election as mayor. The new representative of the city's 40th District said he wants to go after manufacturers of toxic lead paint, boost property values and school performance in West Baltimore and make See MOSBY, page 10 SUMMARY OF THE NEWS Under Armour shares plunge on sales and earnings miss Stock falls 26 percent after lackluster holiday season ANTI-TRUMP BILLS: In a challenge to Gov. Larry Hogan, General Assembly Democrats unveiled a package of initiatives they called a defense of Marylanders' rights against the actions of President Donald J.

Trump. Hogan's spokesman, Doug Mayer, said, "The governor and our legislative agenda will remain focused on Maryland." NEWS PG 2 quarterly gains of 20 percent and more it had reported for nearly seven years. Wall Street pummeled Under Armour's stock after its results fell short of expectations and it cut its sales growth target in half for 2017. Its Class A voting shares plunged $7.45 each to close at $2L49. Under Armour shares haven't been this low since 2009, when the company reported just $856 million in sales for the year.

The plunge took a huge bite out of the net worth of Under Armour founder Kevin Plank, who is its largest shareholder and controls the company through a special class of stock with 10 times the voting power of the Class A shares. Forbes estimated that the Baltimore billionaire's fortune fell 19 See UNDER ARMOUR, page 13 By Lorraine Mirabella The Baltimore Sun Under Armour's long streak of eye-popping gains in sales ended abruptly during the all-important holiday season, the company reported Tuesday, sending its stock down 26 percent. The Baltimore-based athletic apparel brand blamed a sluggish holiday season, a shifting retail landscape and merchandise miscalculations for its October-to-Decem-ber sales of $L3 billion, which, while up 12 percent from a year earlier, fell short of the PARTLY CLOUDY 49 31 KARL MERTON FERRONBALTIMORE SUN Diageo plans to build a U.S. version of Dublin's Guinness Open Gate Brewery near the Baltimore-Howard County border on Washington Boulevard. HIGH LOW Sunny on Thursday SPORTS PG 14 bridge sports 13 lottery news 4 business news 8 obituaries news 12 opinion news 14 puzzles taste 5, sports 13 tonight on tv taste 5 comics taste 4 classified sports 6.