The United States could have a new Supreme Court Justice soon — one with ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ ties. Federal judge Neil Gorsuch, Boulder resident and visiting ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Law professor, was nominated for the court’s vacant seat in late January. Congress was expected to consider his candidacy in March.
If Gorsuch, the son of two ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Law graduates, is confirmed, he would give ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder and the state of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ their deepest SCOTUS affiliation since 1993, the year Justice Byron White (Econ’38) retired and returned to the Rockies. White himself makes a timely cameo in this football-rich issue: 2017 marks the centennial of his birth. An All-American halfback, he was also his class’s valedictorian, epitomizing the scholar-athlete.
Whatever your feelings about Supreme Court politics, and whether you like sports or not, it must be said: ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ lawyers and athletes have set tongues wagging from sea to sea.
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