Gorsuch test

摘要

ELEVEN years ago, Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump's choice to replace Antonin Sca-lia 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. In contrast to William Pryor, another judge shortlisted for the seat, who once called Roe v Wade "the worst abomination" in the history of constitutional law, Mr Gorsuch is not given to incendiary remarks. 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.