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So, Neil Gorsuch has written a book, his third to be precise. As has recently become a tradition of Supreme Court justices, this one is styled as a memoir. Called “A Republic, If You Can Keep It,” the book discusses Gorsuch’s values, path to and ultimately controversial confirmation to the Supreme Court, and the value of public service.
For those that are interested, Bloomberg Law has an excerpt of the new book. The most notable features of the peek into the book is Justice Gorsuch’s seeming contentment to be relegated to the dustbins of history:
If history doesn’t remember Justice Neil Gorsuch, that’d be just fine by him.
“We’ll all be forgotten soon enough,” the justice quotes his former boss and Supreme Court predecessor Justice Byron “Whizzer” White in his upcoming memoir, “A Republic, If You Can Keep It.”
And that’s “exactly as it should be,” Gorsuch says in an exclusive excerpt obtained by Bloomberg Law.
I’m sure the wisdom and perspective passed to Gorsuch by the football great turned Supreme Court are meant to be conveyed as a lesson to all of us about our own fleeting mortality. But, given the infamous way that Gorsuch ascended to the Court, in a seat considered by large swaths of the American population to be stolen from Barack Obama’s choice for the position, Merrick Garland, who was never even granted the respect of a hearing on his nomination. Perhaps the real lesson from Gorsuch’s memoir is that it is better to be forgotten than to be remembered forever as part of an inglorious heist of a Supreme Court seat.
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