April 7, 2017 1:49PM 

# Congratulations, Justice Gorsuch 

By [Ilya Shapiro](https://www.cato.org/people/ilya-shapiro) 

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Congratulations to Neil Gorsuch, who will be sworn in Monday as the newest Supreme Court justice. Gorsuch’s mentor, Justice Byron White, liked to say that each new justice makes for a new court, and I look forward to the breath of fresh air, intellectual rigor, collegiality, and constitutional seriousness that Justice Gorsuch will bring. I’m also glad that our nation’s political debate can move beyond this toxic episode and that we won’t ever have to discuss nuclear options with regard to judges ever again.

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