Law Practice
Apr. 8, 2017
Gorsuch should look forward, not behind
My hunch is that many Americans would be troubled by a justice who can only look to the past and who, as a matter of principle, will ignore the immediate and future consequences of his or her decisions. By Allan Ides
Allan Ides
professor of law
Loyola Law School
919 S Albany St
Los Angeles , CA 90015
Phone: (213) 736-1464
Fax: (213) 383-0495
Email: Allan.Ides@lls.edu
Loyola Law School
Allan Ides is the Christopher N. May professor of law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where his courses include Constitutional Law. He was a clerk to former U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Byron R. White.
Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Donald J. Trump's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, has described his method of constitutional interpretation as one in which he tries "to apply the law as it is, focusing backward, not forward, and looking to text, structure, and history to decide what a reasonable reader at the time of the events in question would have understood the law to be - not to decide cases based on their own moral convictions...
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