Gorsuch Full of Questions in First U.S. Supreme Court Argument

Justice Neil Gorsuch didn’t wait long to start making his presence felt at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Hearing arguments in his first case Monday -- a procedural dispute involving the rights of federal employees who lose their jobs -- Gorsuch waited only 10 minutes before unleashing a barrage of questions and suggesting both sides in the case were misreading a key federal law.

“Where in the statute is that provided?” he asked Chris Landau, a lawyer representing dismissed Census Bureau worker Anthony Perry, in his first question.

By the end of the hour, Gorsuch was as active a questioner as ...