REPORT: Trump’s Supreme Court Pick May Have Lied About His Volunteer Work
Last week Donald Trump introduced his Supreme Court pick live on prime time television in order to change the subject from his disastrous Muslim-ban roll out. And when Donald Trump’s announced Neil Gorsuch as his Supreme Court pick, Trump said that Gorsuch had “demonstrated a commitment to helping the less fortunate” by working in the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project and the Harvard Defenders.
Well it turns out he may not have been that involved with the organization as it was oringialy suggested.
According to the Wall Street Journal, which reported the story, the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project and the Harvard Defenders program offers law school students real-life legal experience representing prison inmates and the poor.
“But roughly three dozen students who participated in the two programs while Mr. Gorsuch was at Harvard Law School from 1988 to 1991 said they have no recollection of his involvement,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
The Journal went on to quote Elizabeth Buckley Lewis who attended Harvard at the same time as Mr. Gorsuch, “If he was active in PLAP I am sure I would remember him.” She went on to say that Prison Legal Assistance Project was her “most meaningful experience” at Harvard.
The Wall Street Journal went on to note that, “Two people who broadly oversaw the students during this period said they had no memory of Judge Gorsuch’s involvement, a third one declined to say, and a fourth died in 1998. Other Harvard classmates and friends of Mr. Gorsuch say they have no recollection of him discussing either program.”
