Politico accuses Gorsuch of plagiarism

Neil Gorsuch, a supreme court nominee, is being accused of plagiarism from his book published in 2006, “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia”. Politico provided documents showing the similarities of his book and the Indiana Law Journal. Gorsuch borrowed quotes, ideas, and language without citing his sources. The White House spokesman, Steven Cheung, defended Gorsuch claiming it is a “false attack”. However, 6 experts on academic integrity communicated with Politico stating that it appears that he indeed copied ideas from the Indiana Law Journal without citing his sources. In the article, a few professors from different Universities claim this is a violation of college plagiarism that would have been looked into at any school. In the article published by John Bresnahan and Burgees Everett, they included a side by side example of Gorsuch’s book and the Indiana Law Journal showing how similar both are. By this example, it seems as if Gorsuch copied word for word in some paragraphs.