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February 6, 2017

Neil Gorsuch Opposed Anti-Apartheid Protesters in College
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Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has scheduled more than a
dozen meetings with senators on Capitol Hill this week. The meetings
come as more information is emerging about Gorsuch, including his
right-wing writings and political views from his time as a student at
Columbia University in the mid-1980s. While on campus, Gorsuch
co-founded the right-wing campus newspaper the Federalist Paper. The
Associated Press reports that in Gorsuch's writing both for the
Federalist Paper and the Columbia Daily Spectator, he criticized
anti-apartheid protests, saying divestment could hurt the university's
endowment. He also criticized racial justice protests and black-led
movements on campus, while he defended the Reagan administration during
the Iran-Contra scandal.


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