Neil Gorsuch
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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. Along with Justice Clarence Thomas, he is an advocate of natural law jurisprudence. He is the first Supreme Court justice to serve alongside a justice for whom he once clerked (Kennedy). 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 personal religious observance, ''303 Creative LLC v. Elenis'' on free speech, and ''Ramos v. Louisiana'' on juries' guilty verdicts. Provided by Wikipedia
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Published: [2009]
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Published: c2006.
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