Gorsuch forecast: A more serene Supreme
Much of the response to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch for the Supreme Court has centered on the 1991 Harvard Law School grad’s similarity to the justice he would replace, Antonin Scalia, who died last year. But the two diverge in at least one important respect, says Charles Fried, the Beneficial Professor of Law. “You won’t get any of the personalized attacks that Scalia was famous for,” said Fried. “He [Gorsuch] is not sarcastic and he is certainly not further to the right than Scalia was … his manner is much less aggressive and much more respectful of the people he disagrees with.” Still, Gorsuch would bring to his rulings many of the same ideas that guided Scalia, Fried said. Gorsuch, 49, is a highly respected jurist with sterling legal and academic qualifications. A classmate of Barack Obama at HLS, he was a Marshall Scholar at the University of...