Conservatives hope new US Supreme Court pick will toe the line

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.