— With legal challenges to the Trump administration’s initiatives multiplying in federal courts, new Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch extolled the virtues of judicial independence and praised a legal system in which “government can lose in its own courts” Friday night. But Gorsuch and Breyer talked in broad terms about independence and respect for the judicial branch’s decisions. “And we’re unanimous about 40 percent of the time.”Of course, it is the closely divided cases at the appeals courts and the Supreme Court that are its most important. About 150 of those were Marshall Scholars, who studied in England through a scholarship program established by Parliament in appreciation for the Marshall Plan. “How many Rhodes Scholars are on the Supreme Court?” he asked as the crowd laughed.

Source: Washington Post June 03, 2017 19:30 UTC