Gorsuch Immigration Dissent Echoes Views on Covid Curbs (1)

Justice Neil Gorsuch’s latest break with the US Supreme Court conservative majority appears rooted in his consistent opposition to government pandemic restrictions.

Legal scholars suggest the Trump-appointee’s rebuke of the court’s decision Tuesday ordering pandemic-era border curbs to remain in place was targeted at the health-related aspect of the immigration policy.

“Gorsuch has been hostile to every single Covid lockdown measure since 2020. Every single one, and this is simply an extension of his hostility to that,” said Josh Blackman, a law professor at South Texas College of Law Houston.

Gorsuch and liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson formed an ...