TROY, N.Y. – With Neil Gorsuch sworn-in this week after a difficult U.S. Supreme Court confirmation, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. said Tuesday the now common political conflict accompanying the process unfairly taints nominees who survive to join the court.

Roberts told students and faculty at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) that the public likely gets the wrong idea about the political stances of new judges because of the partisan warfare that has accompanied recent nominations to the high court.

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