Tag: Judge Gorsuch

Gorsuch’s speeches raise questions of independence, critics say

The following article by Robert Barnes was posted on the Washington Post website September 27, 2017:

President Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, Colorado appeals judge Neil Gorsuch, honored the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in 2016. “All of his colleagues on the bench cherished his wisdom and his humor,” Gorsuch said. (Victoria Walker/The Washington Post)

LEXINGTON, Ky. — No member of Congress was more essential to Neil M. Gorsuch’s ascent to the Supreme Court than Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who blocked President Barack Obama’s nominee for the job and then spearheaded the confirmation process for Gorsuch.

Last week found McConnell (R-Ky.) and Gorsuch traveling the Bluegrass State together for a tour of the senator’s alma maters. “President Trump simply could not have made a better nominee,” McConnell said in introducing Gorsuch before a packed-house lecture at the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville. Continue reading “Gorsuch’s speeches raise questions of independence, critics say”

AP Review: Gorsuch Backed Minimum Standard for Disabled Kids

AP Review is reporting the following:

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has embraced a bare-bones standard of education for disabled children, but he has often upheld other civil rights complaints against schools, an Associated Press review of his legal record shows.

His rulings on education in his decade on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reflect a judge who closely follows judicial precedent, including when it means ruling against handicapped children and their parents.

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