Bloomberg Law
July 27, 2020, 8:51 AM UTC

Gorsuch Doesn’t Give a ‘Fig’ What You Think, Just Like Mentor

Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson
Kimberly Strawbridge Robinson
Reporter

Disaffected conservatives reaching for comparisons between Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and the retired David Souter—a George H. W. Bush nominee who became a reliable member of the court’s liberal wing—might be more dismayed that he’s more like Justice Byron White.

Gorsuch clerked for White, the only other justice from Colorado, and served as an appellate judge in the Byron White courthouse in Denver. He told senators he considered White a childhood hero at his confirmation hearing. He now keeps a bust of White in his chambers that the Supreme Court curator found in storage.

And like White, who was ...

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