Re: VOX article and Judge Neil Gorsuch.

My initial impression was that MSW was pointing to VOX to support his view in favour of Gorsuch's confirmation. In fact, the story is about the need for defense lawyers on SCOTUS (currently 0), and says:

"Ex-prosecutors who make it to the Supreme Court — the Sonia Sotomayors, Samuel Alitos, and perhaps Neil Gorsuchs of the world — were only the best, most scrupulous prosecutors. That creates its own failure of empathy." 

I wish Sean had referred instead to the far weighter article about Justice Gorscuch:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/opinion/the-problems-with-originalism.html?_r=0

And here is a cheat-sheet version: 
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000005000900/originalism-constitution-gorsuch-supreme-court.html

It seems to me that "originalism" is a first cousin of "traditionalist" Catholicism. With both, IMHO, the fact of development in law and development in doctrine, put the lie to these philosophies.