Supreme Court Picks: Senate Showdown Over Neil Gorsuch quoting : "thegrio"

referring to The plagiarism accusations surfaced on the same night that Democrats dug in their heels on the Senate floor to stall a vote on Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation. Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's pick to join the US Supreme Court, has been accused of including language from other authors in his writing without proper attribution. Critics have suggested the incidences call into question Gorsuch's qualifications for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Monica Crowley, an early pick for Trump's National Security Council, was forced to withdraw her name from consideration in January. Gorsuch apparently cited the sources used by the article's author, Abigail Lawlis Kuzma, while copying her verbiage nearly word for word without crediting her.


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(Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)According to a report by Politico, Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch plagiarized several passages for his book and an academic article. "There is only one explanation for this baseless, last-second smear of Judge Gorsuch: those desperate to justify the unprecedented filibuster of a well-qualified and mainstream nominee to the Supreme Court." However, on Tuesday, the White House insisted that there was no impropriety issue on this matter. If confirmed, Gorsuch would fill the seat left vacant with the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016. WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 31: Judge Neil Gorsuch delivers brief remarks after being nominated by U.S. President Donald Trump to the Supreme Court with his wife Marie Louise Gorshuch during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House January 31, 2017 in Washington, DC.


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