Neil Gorsuch

Completely honest and above-board, a man of integrity

Unflagging commitment to respectful and open dialogue on campus

We owe this man the kindness of stating his arguments as fairly as we can and then responding with clear answers in plain English.

I believe in the openness and transparency of a courtroom, the ability of every person to come into it, poor or rich, mighty or meek and have their cause heard.

For after all, this is a democracy at the end of the day. It is not an oligarchy of judges.

But that does not mean just because there is not a single foreordained answer from God in every legal dispute that judges are not trying to look at the legal materials and only the legal materials and trying to make sense of the legal…

That would be, I think, a poor day for the United States courts.

I am not going to be the first judge to come to this table and break that tradition and compromise the integrity of the independent judiciary.

Nobody will capture me.

It is a miraculous system, really.

I do not see Republican judges, and I do not see Democrat judges. I see judges.

The role of the judge is to say what the law is, the great Chief Justice Marshall declared in Marbury v. Madison.