During his first two years in office, President Trump placed not one, but two justices on the highest court in the land. Republicans were excited, and rightly so, at these opportunities.

In the months since his appointment, Justice Neil Gorsuch has shown himself to be generally what onlookers expected: an originalist and textualist like the late Antonin Scalia, whose seat he filled. The expectations and ensuing drama surrounding Justice Brett Kavanaugh have been something else entirely.

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