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To be sure, any nominee these days would face intense scrutiny in the Senate, some of it legitimate, some of it petty, but all of it political. None of it, however, is likely to affect the final vote to confirm Judge Gorsuch.
— Judge Jed S. Rakoff, in a Slate debate with Judge Richard Posner on the role of politics in selecting Supreme Court Justices. Read everything the respected jurists have to say here.