Neil Gorsuch | |
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 Official portrait, 2017 | |
| Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | |
| Assumed office April 10, 2017 | |
| Nominated by | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Antonin Scalia |
| Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit | |
| In office August 8, 2006 – April 9, 2017 | |
| Nominated by | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | David M. Ebel |
| Succeeded by | Allison H. Eid |
| Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General | |
| In office June 2005 – July 2006 | |
| Attorney General | John Ashcroft |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Neil McGill Gorsuch August 29, 1967 Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
| Spouse |
Louise Burleston (m. 1996) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | |
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| Academic background | |
| Thesis | The Right to Receive Assistance in Suicide and Euthanasia (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Finnis |
| Other advisors | Timothy Endicott |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Legal philosophy |
| Notable works | The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (2006) |
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Neil McGill Gorsuch (/ˈɡɔːrsʌtʃ/ GOR-sutch;[1] born August 29, 1967) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President Donald Trump on January 31, 2017, and has served since April 10, 2017.
Gorsuch spent his early life in Denver, Colorado. He was educated at Columbia University, where he became an established writer. Gorsuch then received his legal education at Harvard Law School and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in jurisprudence from Oxford University in 2004 as a Marshall Scholar. His doctoral thesis concerned the morality of assisted suicide and was written under the supervision of legal philosopher John Finnis. He was a law clerk for Judge David B. Sentelle, Justice Byron White, and Justice Anthony Kennedy.
From 1995 to 2005, Gorsuch was in private practice with the law firm of Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick. He was the principal deputy associate attorney general at the United States Department of Justice from 2005 until his appointment to the Tenth Circuit. President George W. Bush nominated Gorsuch to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on May 10, 2006, to replace Judge David M. Ebel, who achieved senior status that same year.
Gorsuch is a proponent of textualism in statutory interpretation and originalism in interpreting the United States Constitution.[2][3][4] Along with Justice Clarence Thomas, he is an advocate of natural law jurisprudence.[5] He is the first Supreme Court justice to serve alongside a justice for whom he once clerked (Kennedy).[6] During his tenure on the Supreme Court he has written the majority opinion in landmark cases such as Bostock v. Clayton County on LGBT rights, McGirt v. Oklahoma on Native American law, Kennedy v. Bremerton School District on federal interference in personal religious observance, and Ramos v. Louisiana on juries' guilty verdicts.
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- ^ Livni, Ephrat (April 7, 2017). "Neil Gorsuch is the first US Supreme Court justice to sit on the bench with his high-court boss". Quartz. Retrieved August 16, 2017.