Gorsuch High Court Hearing Starts With Preview of Party Split

By Laura Litvan and Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News

Senate Democrats cast U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch as outside the mainstream while a top Republican praised his “unfailing commitment” to the law at the start of what promises to be a divisive hearing over a year-old vacancy.

“The judge’s job, our nominee says, is to deliver on the promise that ‘all litigants, rich or poor, mighty or meek, will receive equal protection under the law and due process for their grievances,’” Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, said Monday in Washington.

Gorsuch, 49, President Donald Trump’s first nominee ...