Neil Gorsuch Plagiarized Other Authors In His Book And An Academic Paper: Report
A new report finds that Neil Gorsuch lifted language and structure from several other authors in his book and an academic paper without proper citation.
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is facing a plagiarism scandal just as Senate Republicans move to take the unprecedented step of changing the Senate rules to confirm Gorsuch despite the Democrat filibuster.
Gorsuch “copied the structure and language used by several authors and failed to cite source material in his book and an academic article,” Politico is reporting.
The report notes that there are several passages from Gorsuch’s 2006 book, “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” that “read nearly verbatim to a 1984 article in the Indiana Law Journal.”
Both Gorsuch’s book and an article he published in 2000 include several borrowed ideas, quotes and structures of scholarly and legal works without citation, Politico notes.
A plagiarism expert told Politico that “Each of the individual incidents constitutes a violation of academic ethics. I’ve never seen a college plagiarism code that this would not be in violation of.”
You can read the full Politico piece here.
