Trump’s Supreme Court pick puts Democrats in a bind
by Tessa Berenson
Feb 04, 2017
4 minutes
NEIL MCGILL GORSUCH
AGE
49
FAMILY
Wife Louise; teenage daughters Emma and Belinda
EDUCATION
B.A., Columbia University
J.D., Harvard University
D.Phil., University of Oxford
KEY DECISION
In Hobby Lobby Stores v. Sebelius, Gorsuch sided with the company, which objected on religious grounds to the Affordable Care Act provision requiring it to offer contraceptive coverage
KEY QUOTE
“Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.”
POLITICAL IDEOLOGY
Conservative
DONALD TRUMP KNEW HOW TO MILK
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