Posted on 05/12/2006 7:14:24 PM PDT by new yorker 77
former Supreme Court law clerk from Colorado is President Bush's nominee to fill a vacancy on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The president on Wednesday nominated Neil Gorsuch, who was a clerk to the late Justice Byron White and to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and then spent a decade in private practice before joining the Justice Department last year.
If confirmed by the Senate, Gorsuch will fill the vacancy left when Judge Dave Ebel stepped down to work part-time for the court. The 10th Circuit reviews cases from Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Wyoming, Utah and Kansas.
Gorsuch, a native of Denver, is a Harvard Law School graduate. His deceased mother, Anne McGill Gorsuch Burford, also was a lawyer who spent two years as the Environmental Protection Agency administrator serving under President Reagan.
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If he clerked for Kennedy and White, how conservative could he be?
White may have been a democrat but he was conservate compared to Republicans John Paul Stevens and David Souter. White was also against abortion.
White was a conservative; Kennedy started out as one but ended up a mushy moderate.
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