That Neil Gorsuch Letter To Trump Seems Suspicious
The Washington Post is reporting that President Trump began to second-guess his choice of Neil Gorsuch for a vacant Supreme Court seat shortly after the president announced the pick in late January, when Gorsuch criticized remarks the president had made about federal judges:
The incident that so angered Trump came shortly after a federal judge had issued a nationwide stop to the president’s travel ban targeting a list of majority-Muslim countries. At the time, the president disparaged the “so-called judge” on Twitter, writing that the ruling “put our country in such peril.”
... Trump had additionally said that a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit that held oral arguments to review the judge’s order was “disgraceful” and that the judges cared more about politics than following the law.
Gorsuch had a private meeting with Democratic senator Richard Blumenthal on February 8. Afterward, Blumenthal said that Gorsuch had called Trump's attacks on the judiciary "disheartening" and "demoralizing." The Post story says that Trump began to doubt Gorsuch's loyalty, and had to be talked down by Mitch McConnell.