Neil Gorsuch Case Study

Who is Judge Neil Gorsuch? He is currently forty-nine years old and a nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States. He has the typical high educational degree background any Supreme Court justice has. He attended and graduated from Columbia, Harvard, and Oxford. His religious background is a bit unusual, he grew up Roman Catholic and attended weekly mass with his siblings but now he attended an Episcopal Church. Gorsuch seem like a good family man with traditional religious values and non-traditional religious values. He has an outstanding educational background and has been working with the law and court system for a very long time. He is a republican and a conservative who has gat friends. He is the perfect candidate to fill the vacant …show more content…
Once you’re a Supreme Court that is it, no going back. A Supreme Court Justice should have experience in making favorable and unfavorable rulings before he or she takes the job. Judge Gorsuch does have experience with rulings of that kind. One of Gorsuch's most high profile rulings is the Frozen Trucker case. A summary of the case: A truck driver abandoned his cargo to find help because he knew if he stayed in that truck any longer he'll start to expire from the extreme cold. Truck drivers are not supposed to abandon their load and the company fired him because he did so. Gorsuch ruled in favor of the company because the company's rules and policies. The company rules and policies are law and Gorsuch follows the law, is a man of the law. He was the only judge on the Tenth Circuit to reach this conclusion. On a political level, this would make him a great choice of the U.S. Supreme Court because he is not afraid to make unfavorable decisions. On a personal level I believe this is a bad because he chooses the law over life. The truck driver could have died but he said the law is the law and he should have followed the rules. With I believe this is one of the cons of him being nominated for the U.S. Supreme