By now nearly everyone who cares about
such things has heard: Judge Neil Gorsuch, of the Tenth Circuit Court of
Appeals, isTrump’s nominee for the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Antonin
Scalia last year.
I won’t bother recapping Judge Gorsuch’s
distinguished career yet again; several good introductions have already been
written, especially here
and here.
Suffice it to say that, if confirmed, he would be a stellar justice and a
worthy successor to Scalia. He has enough of a judicial and legal record that it
is nearly impossible to imagine he could become another Souter or Kennedy once
on the bench.
I will say this: Had I known for a fact,
before the election, that Trump would actually nominate such a principled
individual to the Supreme Court, that fact alone would have made me at least
rethink voting against him. Yes, Trump promised to nominate someone from a
publicly released list, and yes, Gorsuch was on that list. But there was little
reason, based on Trump’s history, to believe his campaign promises. It now
seems that on the Supreme Court, as on several other topics, Trump meant what
he said.
Gorsuch is a fantastic choice for the
Supreme Court, a choice worthy of a President Ted Cruz. He deserves every
conservative’s and every Republican’s full support. And, on this at least,
Trump deserves our thanks.
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