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 This new information—from just last year!—is extremely damning. For one thing, federal law says that these questions have no part in hiring decisions. And no less than late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, no flaming liberal, wrote in 2003 upholding a gender-neutral application of the Family Medical Leave Act that "These mutually reinforcing stereotypes created a self-fulfilling cycle of discrimination that forced women to continue to assume the role of primary family caregiver, and fostered employers' stereotypical views about women's commitment to work and their value to employees." 

Here's the experience of a potential colleague of Gorsuch's—Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg—that is timely to consider.

RBG was demoted for her first pregnancy; she hid second, then fought for rights of pregnant workers and helped pass federal anti-discriminatory law.

Gorsuch clearly would rule to reverse that law