Denver native OK'd for appeals court
M.E. Sprengelmeyer, Rocky Mountain News
Published July 21, 2006 at midnight
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate Thursday confirmed attorney and legal scholar Neil Gorsuch to take a seat on the Denver-based 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
The Denver native won confirmation in a voice vote, without objection, after most senators had left for the day.
Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., praised Gorsuch, the son of the late Anne Gorsuch Burford, who led the Environmental Protection Agency during President Reagan's first term in 1983.
"If I were asked to succinctly characterize Mr. Gorsuch, I would have to say well-rounded - well-rounded educationally, professionally, and personally," Allard said.
Gorsuch got an undergraduate degree from Columbia University, a law degree from Harvard, and later received a doctorate in legal philosophy from Oxford University.
Before being nominated, he served in the Justice Department as a principal deputy to the associate attorney general.
Earlier this year, he wrote an article titled "Liberals 'n' Lawsuits" in which he accused liberals of trying to accomplish in the courts what they're unable to win in legislatures.
Gorsuch told the committee he did not believe there was "tension" between his writings and the issues that might come before the court.
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