Thirteen years ago, Neil Gorsuch joined a group of lawyers to strongly object to leaks by former U.S. Supreme Court law clerks who gave Vanity Fair magazine behind-the-scenes information about the court’s decision in Bush v. Gore, the 2000 ruling that led to George W. Bush’s presidency.
“If true, these breaches of each clerk’s duty of confidentiality to his or her appointing justice—and to the court as an institution—cannot be excused as acts of courage or something the clerks were honor-bound to do,” the lawyers wrote in a letter to the editor of Legal Times, which merged with The National Law Journal in 2009.
