Gorsuch is right for Supreme Court

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Washington Examiner:

President Trump won over many wary conservatives last fall when he pledged to nominate conservative, textualist, justices to the Supreme Court. He underscored his seriousness by releasing a list of 20 sterling names from which he would make his choice. And now, as president, he has shown good judgment by making federal judge Neil Gorsuch the apparent front-runner.

 

Gorsuch is the right judge to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Antonin Scalia, who was a towering figure on the Supreme Court for three decades. Gorsuch espouses the judicial restraint and practices the same sort of jurisprudence as Scalia. He is rigorous in sticking to the text of legislation and of the Constitution, and avoiding the urge to act as a super-legislator. He has written plainly on the need for judges to avoid politicization, lamenting that when they are regarded as "little more than politicians with robes" they are subjected to ideological litmus tests wholly inappropriate for their branch of the federal government.

 

Gorsuch was nominated to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals by President George W. Bush, was confirmed unanimously by voice vote, and was rated unanimously "well qualified" by the American Bar Association. He has written more than 175 published majority opinions and 65 concurrences and dissents.

 

He is a graduate of Columbia, Harvard and Oxford Universities, and his facility in argument is exceptional. He lays out his thoughts sharply, clearly and analytically, in prose that is mercifully un-lawyerly. Just as Scalia wrote opinions and memorable dissents that could persuade and embolden the public, Gorsuch's decisions are accessible and convincing to the layman.

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The right man for the bench?