I HOPE TRUMP GETS AT LEAST THREE MORE APPOINTMENTS: Conservatives cheer Gorsuch amid flurry of decisions on final day of Supreme Court term.

Conservatives cheered the opinions of Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s pick to fill the Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, as the high court’s term came to a close Monday.

Although Gorsuch joined the high court in April, with only two months left in its term, Judicial Crisis Network chief counsel Carrie Severino said his actions have demonstrated “an indication of good things to come.”

“[Gorsuch’s actions] show him to be what we believed him to be: a solid constitutionalist, a solid textualist,” Severino said.

On Monday, Gorsuch dissented from the high court’s striking down of an Arkansas birth certificate law for same-sex couples and sided with Justice Clarence Thomas that the block on Trump’s travel ban should not have been only partially lifted. He also joined Thomas’ dissent from the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear a Second Amendment controversy regarding carrying guns for self-defense. Last week, he and Thomas dissented in a 7-2 ruling over the judicial review process for complaints filed by federal employees.

He also joined Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion on Monday that a Missouri law that forbade state funds from going to a church playground was unconstitutional. But Gorsuch, as well as Thomas, disagreed with a distinction Roberts made in a footnote to the opinion.

“The court leaves open the possibility a useful distinction might be drawn between laws that discriminate on the basis of religious status and religious use,” Gorsuch wrote. “Respectfully, I harbor doubts about the stability of such a line. Does a religious man say grace before dinner? Or does a man begin his meal in a religious manner?”

Maybe we should expand the Court to 15, so as to ease the workload on its older members. You’d only need a simple majority in both houses to do it. And there’s Democratic precedent. . . .