Justice Gorsuch’s Manners Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner “How Badly Is Neil Gorsuch Annoying the Other Supreme Court Justices?” asks a New Yorker headline over a Jeffrey Toobin article. You won’t find an answer in the article. You won’t find any evidence that Gorsuch is annoying them at all. You won’t find it, either, in the New York Times column by Linda Greenhouse to which Toobin links, although you will find a lot of indignation from Greenhouse herself about Gorsuch’s alleged bumptiousness. Toobin is determined to read Gorsuch in as tendentious a manner as possible. He writes, Gorsuch also expressed ill-disguised contempt for Anthony Kennedy’s landmark opinion legalizing same-sex marriage in all fifty states. Earlier this year, the Court’s majority overturned an Arkansas ruling that the state could refuse to put the name of a birth mother’s same-sex spouse on their child’s birth certificate. Dissenting, Gorsuch wrote,“Nothing in Obergefell spoke (let a...
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