US President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court. Neil Gorsuch, has been accused of copying language and structure from other authors in his own works without giving the proper attribution to the source.
US President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court. Neil Gorsuch, has been accused of copying language and structure from other authors in his own works without giving the proper attribution to the source.
Multiple reports claim that a chapter of Gorsuch's 2006 book The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia and an academic article from 2000 contain text borrowed from works without crediting the original author.
Politico reported Gorsuch allegedly "borrowed from the ideas, quotes and structures of scholarly and legal works," in some cases. Politico also cited documents relating to the incident.
In one example by Politico, Gorsuch allegedly copied passages that were originally published in an Indiana Law Journal article into his book, without attributing Abigail Lawlis Kuzma, the article's original author.
The incidents call into question Gorsuch's qualification, critics say, for the lifetime post to the US Supreme Court. However, Kuzma as well as the White House have defended Gorsuch. "These passages are factual, not analytical in nature. It would have been awkward and difficult for Judge Gorsuch to have used different language," Kuzma, who is Indiana's deputy attorney general, told Politico.
The accusations came to light on Tuesday, the same night US Democrats tried to stall a vote on Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation.
There have been two other people in relation to Trump who have also been accused of plagiarism. First Lady Melania Trump was accused of copying, excerpts of a speech from former First Lady Michelle Obama for her own speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC). An early pick for Trump's National Security Council, Monica Crowley, withdrew her name after allegations surfaced that she had plagiarised sections of her 2012 national bestselling book What The (Bleep) Just Happened.
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