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An Uncomfortably Familiar Problem for a Trump Nominee

Reports in <em>BuzzFeed </em>and <em>Politico</em> suggest Judge Neil Gorsuch copied passages that appear in his book from another article, and may not have exercised care in attributing other material.
Source: Joshua Roberts / Reuters

Federal judge Neil Gorsuch allegedly copied text and language from several sources without proper attribution in two of his written works, throwing an 11th-hour curveball into the Senate confirmation process for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.

excerpts of Gorsuch’s 2006 book on euthanasia Tuesday night that showed strong similarities between his writing and a 1984 article by Abigail Lawlis Kuzma. The book was an expanded version of the judge’s 2004 dissertation for his doctorate in philosophy at Oxford University. Even in the dense, formulaic world of legal writing, the similarities are striking.

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