Neil Gorsuch is even more conservative than Antonin Scalia was

Published February 1, 2017 1:17am ET



President Trump’s first nomination to the Supreme Court, 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch, is even more conservative than Justice Antonin Scalia was.

If confirmed, he’ll be the second-most conservative member of the Supreme Court, according to one political scientist’s ideology measurement, though still not nearly as conservative as Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice Anthony Kennedy would remain the swing vote on the court, with four justices more liberal and four justices more conservative than he.

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