Gorsuch Sides with Liberals in Child Porn Sentencing Case (3)

Justice Neil Gorsuch again joined his liberal U.S. Supreme Court colleagues when he wrote an opinion siding with a man convicted of child pornography offenses who faced more prison time for violating supervised release.

Though a more reliably conservative vote in other areas—and in criminal cases involving death row prisoners, in particular—it’s the latest instance of Gorsuch applying a limited government mentality to help convicts on appeal.

Just this week, he cast the tie-breaking vote for the defense in another criminal case, and earlier this he term provided the liberals with a fifth vote in decisions favoring American ...