Supreme Court

Neil Gorsuch Don't Write Good

Sick burn.

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Neil Gorsuch is supposed to be a good writer. In fact, he once was: During his tenure on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Gorsuch produced a number of witty, lucid, and pithy opinions. But since his elevation to the Supreme Court, Gorsuch’s prose has curdled into a glop of cutesy idioms, pointless metaphors, and garbled diction that’s exhausting to read and impossible to take seriously. It may even be alienating the conservative justices whom Gorsuch was supposed to beguile with his ostensibly impeccable reasoning.

— Mark Joseph Stern, discussing the deteriorating quality of Neil Gorsuch’s writing. He goes on to call some of the justice’s prose a “crime against the English language.” Burn.

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