The great project of Justice's Scalia's career was to remind us of the differences between judges and legislators, to remind us that legislators may appeal to their own moral convictions and to claims about social utility to reshape the law as they think it should be in the future. But that judges should do none of these things in a democratic society.

Neil Gorsuch

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In a world without Chevron, very little would change except perha... by Neil Gorsuch

In a world without Chevron, very little would change except perhaps the most important things.

important world

None of you speaks for me. I speak for me. I am a judge. I am ind... by Neil Gorsuch

None of you speaks for me. I speak for me. I am a judge. I am independent. I make up my own mind.

independent judging mind

I'm distressed to hear you think that judges or the Supreme Court is an organ of a party. That, to me, is just - I know you feel that way. And that distresses me.

party judging thinking

That seems to me a significant promise, especially to the least and most vulnerable among us, like the immigrant, like the veteran, who may not be the most popular or able to capture an agency the way many regulated entities can today.

Brown v. Board of Education. by Neil Gorsuch

Brown v. Board of Education.

You'd have to ask them. by Neil Gorsuch

You'd have to ask them.

I can honestly say that as beat up as I was when I got there with the workload, I don't know how I would have gotten through if he hadn't been there.

The Supreme Court recognized in Cruzan that there's a right in the common law to be free from assault and battery, effectively.

Senator, I don't know, i wasn't in the man's shoes. by Neil Gorsuch

Senator, I don't know, i wasn't in the man's shoes.

I come from a family of strong women. by Neil Gorsuch

I come from a family of strong women.

The one I happily enjoy now. by Neil Gorsuch

The one I happily enjoy now.

You embarrassed me in front of my nephew, and he loves it. by Neil Gorsuch

You embarrassed me in front of my nephew, and he loves it.

That's why John Hancock is now synonymous with his signature. No one remembers who John Hancock was but they know that that's his signature because he wrote his name so bigly -- big and boldly.

As the book explains, the Supreme Court of the United States has held in Roe v. Wade that a fetus is not a person for purposes of the 14th Amendment and the book explains that, do you accept that?

That's the law of the land, senator, yes. by Neil Gorsuch

That's the law of the land, senator, yes.

That's the rule of law in this country, i'm a judge now, and I take that seriously, and you better believe I expect judicial decrees to be obeyed.

I can't think of one, offhand. by Neil Gorsuch

I can't think of one, offhand.

When anyone criticizes the honesty, integrity, the motives of a federal judge, I find that disheartening, I find that demoralizing, because I know the truth.

I know these people. by Neil Gorsuch

I know these people.

I would have walked out the door. by Neil Gorsuch

I would have walked out the door.