After a former student of Judge Neil Gorsuch at the University of Colorado’s law school trashed the Supreme Court nominee, 87 current and former students penned a letter supporting Gorsuch.
Jennifer Sisk, the distraught former student and former staffer of former Democratic Sen. Mark Udall, wrote that Gorsuch told a class that law firms should ask potential female employees about their plans to have children. She suggested that Gorsuch implied women used maternity leave to exploit their employers. The letter was posted the night before the hearings began by the National Women’s Law Center and National Employment Lawyers Association, which oppose Gorsuch’s nomination.
The Washington Examiner obtained a letter on Monday night from 87 of Gorsuch’s Colorado law students—past and present—of various political persuasions boosting the Supreme Court nominee. The letter was sent to Senate Judiciary Committee leadership.
“Judge Gorsuch was an excellent and innovative professor who always made us feel like valuable participants in the learning process,” the students wrote. “He encouraged student involvement in the classroom and consistently fostered truly collaborative classroom discussion. He required us to take handwritten notes to minimize other distractions and so encourage us to engage actively and openly with our peers.”
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Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) referenced Sisk’s letter at Monday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Gorsuch’s nomination and said, “Tomorrow we’ll get to the bottom of it, I hope.”
Gorsuch will face lengthy question-and-answer sessions before the Senate Judiciary Committee beginning on Tuesday morning.
