Gorsuch: ‘Laws Congress Enacted’ Matter More Than ‘Our Own Opinions About Good Policy’

(CNSNews.com) - In his first words as a Supreme Court nominee Tuesday night, Judge Neil Gorsuch promised to be "a faithful servant of the constitutional laws of this great country."

"I respect the fact that in our legal order, it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws," Gorsuch said. "It is the rule of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives. A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge, stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands."

Long before Gorsuch was nominated, he expressed those same sentiments in the June 2013 Hobby Lobby case, where the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby, challenged the Obama administration's contraception-coverage requirement as a violation of their sincerely held religious beliefs.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit ruled that Hobby Lobby was entitled to bring claims under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).

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