Gorsuch Says Supreme Court Justices Aren’t Liberal, Conservative (1)

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch said he doesn’t view the justices as liberal or conservative, characterizing his “originalist” approach toward the Constitution as a nonpolitical way to keep personal preferences from influencing rulings.

Gorsuch, the first of President Donald Trump’s two Supreme Court appointees, said during an interview Friday in his Washington chambers that originalism is supported by people of “all kinds of different political persuasions.”

Neil Gorsuch

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Legal conservatives in recent decades have embraced originalism, which focuses on the meaning of the Constitution’s words at the time it was adopted. The late Justice Antonin Scalia was an originalist, ...