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Conservatives hope new US Supreme Court pick will toe the line
Published Wed, Feb 1, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Washington
IN THE weeks after Antonin Scalia's death last year, Judge Neil Gorsuch hailed the conservative icon as a "lion of the law" who transformed how judges think.
Conservatives are now betting that Mr Gorsuch, the 49-year-old appellate judge who is President Donald Trump's pick for the US Supreme Court, will be a worthy disciple to Mr Scalia and won't veer to the left like some previous Republican nominees.
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