by John Greenya
Johnson, Lyndon B., 209
Judicial review, 114
Judicial Watch, 176
Justice, U.S. Department of, 29, 86, 100–108, 110–118, 125, 144
Kagan, Elena, 37, 56–57, 116, 152–153, 189, 191–192, 198, 216–217, 228
Katsas, Gregory, 122
Katyal, Neal, 179–180
Kavanaugh, Brett M., 53, 55, 60
Keenan, Mary, 129
Keisler, Peter, 108–109
Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Fiegel & Frederick, 85, 86
Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Fiegel, 83–92, 99–102, 121
Kennedy, Anthony, 38, 53, 55, 57, 60, 79, 86, 95, 121, 122, 186, 207
Kerr, Blaine, 122, 125–127, 129–131
Kerry, John, 167
Keswick Hall, Virginia, 87
Kevorkian, Jacob “Jack,” 48
Kim, Wan, 86, 100–101, 122
King, Steve, 47
Kissinger, Henry, 35
Kotta, Kristine, 74
Krauthammer, Charles, 4
Kravitz, David, 153–154
Kroll, Bob, 43
Kushner, Jordan, 33, 142
Landau, Christopher, 197
Laura Ashley, 87
Law360 blog, 84, 94, 106–110, 133
Leadville, Colorado, 11
Leahy, Patrick, 181
Leave It to Beaver (television show), 4
Lee, Mike, 162–163, 173, 183
Leo, Leonard, 47
Levitas, Elliott, 24, 28
Levy, Andrew, 33, 137
LGBTQ community, 79, 80
Library of Congress, 57
Lincoln-Douglas debates, 21
Lincoln’s Inn Society, 41–43
Liptak, Adam, 54
Lockhart v. United States (2005), 216–217, 228
London Stock Exchange, 89
Los Angeles Times, 123–124, 153, 193
Loveland Pass, Colorado, 11
Macagnone, Michael, 106–107
Maddin, Alphonse, 173–177
Madison, James, 225
“Man Who Owns L.A., The” (Bruck), 91
Manchin, Joe, 184
Manning, Peyton, 207
Marceau, Justin, 194–195
Mardel chain, 132
Marshall, George C., 46
Marshall, John, 195, 220
Marshall, Thurgood, 56–57, 64–66
Marshall Scholarship, 46
Martin, Brian, 66–68
Martinez-Hidalgo v. United States (1993), 55–56
Matter of Interpretation, A (Scalia), 215
Mayer Brown, 102
McCallum, Robert, 101, 102
McConnell, Mitch, 5, 6, 162, 183–186, 198, 199
McGill, Joseph John, 9, 30, 206
McGinniss, John O., 193
McKay, Monroe G., 127, 128
McLaughlin Group, 12
Mehlman, Ken, 42, 78
Meyer, David D., 54
Mikva, Abner (“Abe”), 45, 46
Milbank, Dana, 4
Military Commissions Act of 2006, 114
Miller, Andrea, 32–33, 140, 141
Miller, S. A., 162–163
Mooney, Chris, 25–26
Morin, Donald R., 88
Morningside Review, The (Columbia University), 34
Mountain Bell, 14
Mountains and Clouds (Calder), 167
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 168
Muslim travel ban, 165
Mystal, Elie, 177
NARAL Pro-Choice America, 76
National Association for Law Placement, 99
National Institute of Reproductive Health, 32, 141
National Italian American Foundation, 154
National Labor Relations Board, 58
National security, 104
National Security Council, 111
Natural law, doctrine of, 47, 155–156
Natural Law and Natural Rights (Finnis), 162
“Neil Gorsuch Has Gay Friends. Who Cares?” (Stern), 79–80
“Neil Gorsuch’s Mother Once Ran the EPA. It Didn’t Go Well” (Washington Post), 25–26
New Deal, 61, 62, 64
New York Daily News, 117–118
New York Times, 53–55, 79, 90, 104, 156, 162–165, 187–188, 196–199
New Yorker, The, 91–92
Newsweek magazine, 25
Nicaragua, 33, 142
9/11 terrorist attacks, 103, 104, 109, 112
Nitz, Janie, 85
Nuclear option, 164, 184, 185
Obama, Barack Hussein, 39, 44, 60, 132, 165, 173, 185, 209
Gorsuch, compared to, 36–37
at Harvard Law School, 36–38, 43
returns to Chicago after law school, 37–38, 45, 46
Supreme Court nominee of, 2, 5, 187
Obama, Michelle Robinson, 45, 46
Ochs, Steven, 4, 12–13, 20–23
“Of Lions and Bears, Judges and Legislators, and the Legacy of Justice Scalia” (Gorsuch), 147–148, 213–231
Office of the Inspector General, 103
Originalism, 40, 94–95, 133, 137, 175, 193, 194
O’Rourke, Patrick, 126, 127, 129–131
Oxford University, 38, 46–48, 50, 71, 74, 137, 161–162, 202
Paul VI, Pope, 12
Pauper status (in forma pauperis), 58, 59
Payday loans case, 100
Pence, Mike, 180
People for the American Way, 132
People magazine, 124
Peppers, Todd C., 54
Perry v. Merit Systems Protection Board (2017), 197
Phi Gamma Delta, 32, 140
Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), 49, 53
Politico, 35, 44, 179
PolitiFact, 165–166
Posner, Richard, 218, 221
Poundstone, Frieda, 29–30
Prager, Eric, 142
Presentment, 221, 223
Presidential election of 2016, 5
Presidential Medal of Freedom, 46
Priebus, Reince, 178
Princeton University Press, 48–49
Ramer, Samuel, 105–107
Rauh, Joseph Jr., 61–64
Reading Law (Scalia), 215
Reagan, Ronald, 20, 24, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 132, 188
Rehnquist, William H., 54, 60
Reid, Harry, 165
Religious freedom, 132–133, 181, 189–190
Republican National Committee, 42, 78
Reuters, 133
Revere, Paul, 210
Rhode, Deborah L., 199
Riordan, Richard, 92
Roanoke College, 54
Roberts, John, 3, 41, 95, 109, 113, 131, 163, 192, 195, 198
Robinson, Spottswood, 65
Rocca, Mo, 19
Rockwell International, 88
Rocky Flats nuclear facility, 88
Rocky Mountain News, 26
Roe v. Wade (1973), 39, 49, 50, 115, 118, 127, 181
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 62, 64
Rosen, Jeffrey, 93–94
Rubino, Kathryn, 199
“Rule of Law as a Law of Rules, The” (Scalia), 148, 231
Russell, Thomas B., 90
Ryan, James, 60
St. John’s Episcopal Church, Boulder, 13
Sanderson, Jim, 14, 15
Sandinistas, 33
Sasse, Ben, 166
Savage, David, 193–194
Scalia, Antonin (“Nino”), 54, 60, 161, 162, 172, 180, 207–209
antitrust issues and, 93–94
death of, 1, 147, 151, 214
Ginsburg, friendship with, 154
Gorsuch, compared to, 39, 94–95, 154–156, 194, 196
Gorsuch’s speech in tribute to, 147–148, 151–153, 213–231
name-calling by, 154
originalism/textualism concepts and, 40, 151–153, 175
personality of, 154–155
writing style of, 39, 137, 153, 156
Scalia, Maureen, 154
Scalia Lecture, Harvard Law School (K
agan), 152, 216
Schumer, Charles E., 2, 3, 93, 161, 163–164, 166, 183
SCOTUSblog, 49, 57, 60, 157, 190
Senate Historical Office Building, 167
Sherman, Mark, 71
Shriver, Anthony, 19
Shriver, Mark, 19
Signorile, Michelangelo, 80
Simpson, Lisa, 123–125, 128
Simpson v. Colorado (2001), 122–123, 125–131
Slate, 79
Smith, William French, 27
Soboroff, Steve, 92
Socrates, 231
Sotomayor, Sonia, 116, 167, 189, 196, 198, 208, 209, 216, 228
Souter, David, 50, 60
South Africa, 33–34
Special Report (Fox News), 4
Speech, freedom of, 34, 138
Spicer, Sean, 2, 187
Sports Illustrated, 123, 129
Springer, Susan W., 13
Standard Products, 58
Stanford Law Review, 88–89
State, U.S. Department of, 34, 111, 115
Stellar Wind, 104
Stern, Mark Joseph, 79–80
Stevens, John Paul, 100, 208
Stolberg, Sheryl Gay, 79
Student protests, 32, 139, 143
Summary judgment, 125, 126, 128
Sumner, Increase, 210–211
Superfund cleanup program, 26–28
“Supreme Clerks” (Greenya), 61, 64, 66
“Supreme Court Nominee Alert to the Dangers of Big Business, A” (Rosen), 93–94
Supreme Court of the United States
clerks of, 45–46, 53–68
court-packing plan, 64
Gorsuch nomination to, 1–2, 6, 43, 100, 155, 156, 161–167, 179, 187
responsibilities of junior justices, 191–192
(see also specific justices)
Swoyer, Alex, 162
Tate, Allen, 19
Tengler, Rob, 12, 77
Term limits, 42
Textualism, 40, 94–95, 133, 137–138, 174–175, 193, 194
Thomas, Clarence, 60, 95, 156, 157, 188, 196, 208, 209
Time magazine, 47, 48
Times of London, 72
Torture, 105, 111–112, 115, 117, 181
Totenberg, Nina, 157, 195
Town & Country magazine, 90–91
TransAm trucker case, 59, 173–178
Trent, Michael, 73, 77
Tribe, Laurence, 37, 38, 218
Trinity Lutheran Church case, 189–190
Truman Scholarship, 35–36
Trump, Donald J., 53, 94, 173, 180, 181, 199
first one hundred days as president, 5, 186–197
Gorsuch as nominee for Supreme Court and, 1–2, 6, 43, 155, 156, 161, 179, 187
Twitter attack on federal judges by, 165, 166, 181
Trump International Hotel, 198–199
Tulane University Law School, 54
Tweed Ring, 62
Twitter, 165
Tymkovich, Tim, 191
United Press International, 34
United States Chamber of Commerce, 85, 101
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, 60
United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 57, 58
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, 55, 59, 85, 92, 121, 122, 125–133, 168, 173–175, 209, 224
United States Marine Corps, 138
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 2, 5, 6, 9, 23, 34, 57, 86, 92, 105–107, 110–118, 132, 151, 164, 165, 167–186, 205–211
United States Tobacco Company, 88
University of Colorado, 11, 122, 124–130
University of San Diego School of Law, 41
Unreasonable searches and seizures, 133
Use of Military Force Act of 2001, 109
Ute Indian Tribe of the Unitah and Ouray Reservation, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Myton (2016), 144
Vienna, Virginia, 72
Vietnam War, 32, 142, 165
Volokh, Eugene, 55–57, 60
Wall Street Journal, 43
Walsh, Mark, 57–60
Wang, Amy, 138–139
Ward, Derrick, 154
Warrantless searches, 104, 105
Warren, Elizabeth, 2, 161, 169
Washington, George, 184
Washington Examiner, 116
Washington Lawyer, 60–61, 66
Washington Post, 3, 4, 11–13, 23, 25–26, 31–32, 40, 77, 78, 88, 133, 138–139, 154, 161, 164, 184–185, 193, 199, 202
Washington Times, 162–163
Waterboarding, 111–112
Waters, P. T., 33, 137
Watt, James, 27–28
“We Won’t Be Fooled Again” (Schumer), 163
Western World Ins. Co. v. Markel Am Ins. Co. (2012), 145
White, Byron R., 38, 46, 50, 53–55, 86, 180, 207
Whitehouse, Sheldon, 176, 183
Will, George F., 161
Williams, Karen Hastie, 64–66
Women’s March on Washington, 13
Yellowbear, Andrew, 132, 146
Yellowbear v. Lampert (2014), 132, 146
Youngstown formulation, 113
Zadrozny, Brandy, 139–140, 142
Zaretsky, Staci, 46
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