NEIL GORSUCH/SUPREME COURT: “E[leven] years ago, Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump’s choice to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, sailed through the Senate by a voice vote when George W. Bush appointed him to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. This time, with the ideological tilt of America’s highest court hanging in the balance and Democrats fuming over their Republican colleagues’ stonewalling of Merrick Garland, Barack Obama’s choice to fill the seat, Mr Gorsuch will face a tougher crowd.Democrats may be hard-pressed to vilify the scholarly jurist, but their sense that he has been tapped for a stolen seat is certain to cloud his confirmation hearings.”
– The Economist, “Neil Gorsuch is a good pick for the Supreme Court,” The Economist Magazine, Feb. 4, 2017