 There had been some surprise to find Gorsuch, a conservative-leaning appointee under Trump, to have written the majority opinion supporting LGBT employment rights.However, political analysts found that the majority opinion was consistent with Gorsuch's prior textualism in statutory interpretation of the plain meaning of laws in general, following the same legal philosophy of Antonin Scalia, his predecessor in the Court.Gorsuch had written much on textualism in his book "A Republic, If You Can Keep It", published in mid-2019 prior to the case, and some of Gorsuch's questioning at the oral hearings drew on using textual interpretation of the law.