ADF helps us learn about the President’s U.S. Supreme Court Nominee
By Michael Farris and Jim Campbell
Alliance Defending Freedom
February 1, 2017
After much build up, rumor, and speculation, President Donald J. Trump has announced that Judge Neil Gorsuch is his pick to fill the current opening on the United States Supreme Court. While ADF does not take a position on the merits of Supreme Court nominees, here are some things that you might be interested to learn about him.
Judge Gorsuch has been a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit for 10 years. He was nominated in May 2006 and confirmed two months later by a unanimous voice vote.
His career has also included prior work at the United States Supreme Court. Indeed, soon after graduating from Harvard Law School in the early 1990s, he clerked for both Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy.
As Eric Citron wrote earlier this month at SCOTUSblog, Judge Gorsuch’s “background is filled with sterling legal and academic credentials,” including that he was “a Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford” where he earned a Doctorate in Legal Philosophy. Read the rest of this entry
