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Gorsuch Calls Trump's Attacks on the Judiciary 'Disheartening'

The president’s choice to fill a Supreme Court vacancy offered a harsh assessment in a meeting with a senator on Wednesday.
Source: Yuri Gripas / Reuters

President Trump’s harsh words for the federal judges weighing his controversial immigration ban received criticism from an unlikely source: Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s nominee for the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Gorsuch, a federal appeals judge, told Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal that Trump’s attacks were “demoralizing” and

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