February 01, 2017 at 06:36AM
Donald Trump’s nominee to the supreme court has written about liberals relying on judicial rulings to advance ‘their social agenda’
In a 2005 essay titled Liberals ’N’ Lawsuits, Neil Gorsuch, then a corporate lawyer in Washington, DC, argued that “American liberals” had come to rely too much on court decisions to advance “their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education”.
Published just months after the re-election of George W Bush, it was a remarkable bit of concern-trolling ahead of its time. If liberals really wanted to enact their agenda, Gorsuch wrote, they should focus on “trying to win elections rather than lawsuits”.
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