This morning, the Judicial Crisis Network launched a national $2 million advertising campaign in support of confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. The commercial features Jane Nitze, a former Obama administration attorney, who clerked for Judge Gorsuch in 2008 and 2009.
“I don’t think folks on the Left should be concerned about Judge Gorsuch becoming a Supreme Court Justice,” Nitze says in the ad. “He is extraordinarily fair-minded. He will approach each case the same, regardless of the issue or the parties before him, and he will have a great deal of respect for folks on all sides of the ideological spectrum. I worked for the Obama administration. I have to say, I’m 100 percent comfortable with Judge Gorsuch becoming the next Supreme Court justice.”
Nitze was an attorney advisor to the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel and clerked for Sonia Sotomayor in 2011 and 2012. She now teaches at Harvard Law School.