Environmentalists say Gorsuch thinks they’re ‘addicted to litigation’

Published April 3, 2017 10:05pm ET



Environmental groups are weighing in heavily against the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch as Supreme Court justice because he sees liberals as “addicted to litigation.”

Trip Van Noppen, the president of the environmental lawyer group Earthjustice, made the comment Monday after Gorsuch was advanced out of the Judiciary Committee, quoting an essay published in National Review magazine in 2005 by President Trump’s nominee to the high court.

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