A former student of Neil Gorsuch at the University of Colorado Law School has written to the Senate Judiciary Committee, describing a class lecture in which Gorsuch said that employers, and particularly law firms, should ask women job seekers their plans for having children in the future, suggesting that women are looking for jobs solely for the maternity benefits.


"He interrupted our class discussion to ask students how many of us knew women who used their companies for maternity benefits, who used their companies to — in order to have a baby and then leave right away," Sisk said.



She recalled that few students raised their hands and Gorsuch became animated. 


"He said, 'Come on, guys. All of your hands should be up. Many women do this,'" Sisk said.

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