During his U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearing in March 2017, Neil Gorsuch recalled a memory from the 1990s, when as a freshly minted Harvard Law grad he spent a year as a clerk in the chambers of D.C. Circuit Judge David Sentelle.

Sentelle had written a panel opinion that went one way at the beginning of the year, Gorsuch remembered, but by the end of the year, the judge wrote an en banc opinion reversing his panel opinion. “Now, some people say that is a man who does not have a spine, something like that. I say that is a judge with an open mind,” Gorsuch said.

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