We’re pleased to publish this guest feature by Matt Mellema and Ian Speir.
President Trump’s tapping of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court has won near-universal praise from the Religious Right. Gorsuch has been lauded as an articulate originalist, a committed textualist, and a judge “in the model of the late Antonin Scalia.” The evangelicals who supported Trump because of the Supreme Court may have sold their birthright for a bowl of stew. But at least it was a good stew.
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