WHO IS NEIL GORSUCH

Gia
Feb 1, 2017
3 min read

President Donald Trump has announced his pick to fill the Supreme Court Vacancy- Judge Neal Gorsuch.

What you need to know about Judge Neal Gorsuch:

He is a Federal Court Judge on the United States Court of Appeal for the Tenth District.
He was born August 29, 1967 in Denver Colorado and he has been married to Marie Louise for the past 20 years.
He has two daughters Emma and Emma and Belinda
He was appointed the position on May 10, 2006 by President George W Bush to replace Judge David E Ebel who took senior status in 2006.
He got his education from; Oxford University, University College, Columbia University, Harvard University and Harvard Law School
He has written two books; The Future Of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, he is one of the 12 coauthors The Law Of Judicial Precedent
He is a recipient of the Edward J Randolph Award for outstanding service to the Justice Department and Harry S Truman's Foundation Stevens Award for outstanding public service in the field of law.
He was a Lawyer at the Kellog, Huber, Hassen Todd, Evans & Figel in Washington DC from 1995-1997 he was an Associate there from 1995-1997 and he was a Partner from 1998-2005.
He served as Principal Deputy to the Associate Attorney General, Robert McCallum, at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2005 until 2006.
He was a Thomson Visiting Professor at the University of Colorado Law School.
Gorsuch advocates a broad definition of religious freedom and sided with Christian employers and religious organizations in the cases of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. and the case of Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged v. Burwell, later consolidated into Zubik v. Burwell. In the Hobby Lobby case, Gorsuch held that the requirement in the Affordable Care Act that employers provide insurance coverage for contraceptives without a co-pay violated the rights of those employers that object to use of contraceptives on religious grounds.He wrote: "The ACA's mandate requires them to violate their religious faith by forcing them to lend an impermissible degree of assistance to conduct their religion teaches to be gravely wrong."
In his dissent of the 2007 case Summum v. Pleasant Grove City, which was affirmed by the Supreme Court, Gorsuch took the view that displaying a religious monument, such as the Ten Commandments, did not obligate a governmental authority to display other offered monuments, such as those from other religions.
Gorsuch has written that "the law … doesn’t just apply to protect popular religious beliefs: it does perhaps its most important work in protecting unpopular religious beliefs, vindicating this nation’s long-held aspiration to serve as a refuge of religious tolerance"
In writing his opinion for Hugo Rosario Gutierrez-Brizuela v. Loretta E. Lynch, Gorsuch postulated that the 1984 case of Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., which gives federal agencies (and not the courts) the authority to interpret ambiguous laws and regulations, should be reconsidered.[In his opinion, Gorsuch wrote that the practice of administrative deference established by the Chevron case is "more than a little difficult to square with the Constitution of the framers' design." The impact of an overturn of the Chevron case would be to shift power from federal agencies to the courts.
In the 2008 case of United States of America v. Shawn Lloyd Hinckley, Gorsuch argued that one possible reading of the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act likely violates the nondelegation doctrine.Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsberg held the same view in their 2012 dissent of Reynolds v. United States
Gorsuch favours a strict reading of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.[31] In a 2003 case, Gorsuch denied requests of death-row inmates seeking to escape executions.
He has not ruled on abortion but his his views on the sanctity of life are revealed in his book opposing assisted suicide.