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Should Gorsuch's plagiarism be considered grounds for his disqualification as a Supreme Court candidate?

Asked by cinnamonk (5402points) April 5th, 2017

In case you hadn’t heard already, Neil Gorsuch, the GOP-nominee for the Supreme Court, wrote a book in 2006 which has been found to be heavily plagiarized. Passages of Gorsuch’s book, including footnotes, were copied word-for-word from other sources, down to their punctuation marks and ellipses:

This replication of the ellipses is overwhelming evidence that Gorsuch didn’t just use the Kuzma article to track down primary sources, such as the unpublished Indiana judicial opinion involving Infant Doe. He cut-and-pasted the entire footnote, ellipses and all. Further proof that he didn’t go back to the primary source is that there had been several editions of the Rudolph pediatrics textbook since the 1983 17th edition that Kuzma cited in 1984. Gorsuch didn’t bother to track those down.

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If plagiarism can get your university enrollment (and degree) revoked, should it get Gorsuch removed from consideration as a future Supreme Court justice?

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