Justice Neil Gorsuch
Supreme Court of the United States
Neil McGill Gorsuch was born in August 1967 in Denver, Colorado. He earned an undergraduate degree in political science from Columbia University and received his Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Law from the University of Oxford, where he completed research on assisted suicide and euthanasia. He was a judicial clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then for Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy. He entered the private practice of law.
Gorsuch served briefly as Principal Deputy to the Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. He managed the Department’s Civil Division. President George W. Bush nominated Gorsuch to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He was confirmed by a unanimous voice vote in the Senate and assumed his position in July 2006.
President Donald Trump announced the nomination of Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court in January 2017. The Senate confirmed him, and he received his commission in April 2017.
Gorsuch is married to Louise, a British citizen he met at Oxford. They have two daughters. Raised a Catholic, Gorsuch attends an Episcopal church.
In the News…
Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch authored the unanimous Supreme Court opinion that determined “last mile” drivers are included in an exemption from arbitration under an interstate commerce law, despite not crossing state lines with interstate deliveries.
Justice Gorsuch wrote, “The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) requires courts to enforce many private arbitration agreements, but it also provides that ‘nothing’ in the law shall be used to compel arbitration in disputes involving the ‘contracts of employment’ of any class of workers ‘engaged in… interstate commerce.’”
Justice Gorsuch continued, “The statutory text does not support a rule requiring workers to cross state lines or interact with vehicles that do. When the FAA was enacted, to ‘engage’ meant to ‘take part in’ something or to be ’employ[ed]’ or ‘involve[d]’ in that thing… And ‘interstate commerce’ meant ‘[t]raffic,’ ‘intercourse,’ or ‘the transportation of persons or property between or among the several states… or from or between points in one state and points in another state.’”
Justice Gorsuch added, “Nothing in those terms requires an individual to cross state lines or interact with a vehicle that does. Interstate commerce includes transporting products ‘between points in one state and points in another state,’ which involves not just crossing state lines but intrastate activity too; ‘a continuous carriage’ may begin in one State and end in another while ‘much of the journey’ takes place ‘within the limits of a single state.’
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