The final year of Trump's current term has been marked by the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic, which has wiped out most of the economic gains made under both his and Obama's administrations. Trump nominated and the Senate confirmed two Supreme Court justices: Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. Trump nominated Gorsuch, a federal appellate judge, to fill the vacancy which arose after the February 2016 death of Antonin Scalia and which had not been filled under the then-president Obama because of Republican obstruction.