GREAT READS → SPOTLIGHT Issue 647 · February 8, 2017

Judge Neil Gorsuch

Originalist Nominee Poised to Fulfill Trump Campaign Promises

Judge    Neil    Gorsuch

“BRILLIANT” “unquestioningly conservative” “humble” are all encomiums used to describe Gorsuch who was unanimously approved by the Senate when he ascended to the federal bench in 2006

We don’t want to toot our horn too much at Mishpacha but we have inside information on Neil Gorsuch President Trump’s nominee for the US Supreme Court.

As it happens our very own Refoel Pride chief copyeditor attended Columbia University with Gorsuch and once counted him as a friend. “He kind of stood out on campus ” says Pride who studied history and public policy at Columbia. “He was like someone from another era. His manner of carrying himself and the way he spoke was forgive the pun courtly.”

And from which era did Gorsuch emerge in Refoel’s assessment? “I’d say England 1890s.”

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