Provo • Justice Neil Gorsuch says he doesn’t recognize the Supreme Court reflected in news stories hinting at deep divisions and tensions among the nine jurists.
As he tells it, members of the nation’s highest court eat packed lunches together while Justice Stephen Breyer tests out knock-knock jokes that his grandchildren taught him. They sing happy birthday to each other, grill burgers at employee picnics and play practical jokes.
“That’s the Supreme Court I know,” Gorsuch said Friday night to an audience of about 1,000 at Brigham Young University. “Do we need more of that in our world today?