Neil Gorsuch, Supreme Court Justice.

Terry O'Keefe · Sep 10, 2019

I like what I read in this article on CNN.

At oral arguments and in his opinions, Gorsuch is setting out on a singular course. He aims not just to solve the cases at hand, but to change the way people think about the law. His project is in part to finish the work of Scalia by reinvigorating a judicial philosophy that looks to the original meaning of the Constitution.
He sees a judge's job as enforcing that approach "as faithfully and fearlessly" as possible. "The most vulnerable among us has the same rights as the richest and the most powerful," he said.

But his approach to the law rubs a number of different groups, who believe it writes them out of the Constitution, the wrong way. Like the more liberal justices on the court, they believe the document evolves with time. It's a battle between originalists and so-called "living constitutionalists."

Gorsuch takes on their philosophy arguing that it permits judges to add things into the Constitution that aren't there.

"I say the country is owned by We The People. We wrote a Constitution, we put down what we wanted to put in it. We can amend it when we wish and it is not up to nine people to tell 330 million Americans how to live."
In a new book, "A Republic, If You Can Keep It," he puts it another way: Under originalism a judge can't add or subtract rights "willy nilly."
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Neil Gorsuch: 'Do you really want me to rule the country?' - CNNPolitics

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