ANALYSIS: TRUE. Justice Gorsuch is the most libertarian justice.

When Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court in January 2017, Demand Progress warned that the judge was “an extremist” who would “rubber stamp Trump’s assaults on Americans’ freedoms.” People for the American Way likewise described Gorsuch as “an ideological warrior who puts his own right-wing politics above the Constitution, the law and the rights of everyday people.” During Gorsuch’s confirmation hearings that March, Sen. Mazie Hirono (D–Hawaii) worried that “you rarely seem to find in favor of the little guy.”

Even before Gorsuch heard his first case as a Supreme Court justice in April 2017, it was clear from his decade on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit that such attacks were unwarranted. Far from screwing over “the little guy” at every opportunity, he had shown unusual sensitivity to the predicament of vulnerable people confronted by implacable and frequently inscrutable agents of the state. “Among the folks that Trump had on his short list,” observes the Ohio State University law professor Douglas Berman, “Gorsuch seemed more defendant-friendly than most of the others,” and “that’s carried over to the Supreme Court.”

It’s as if you can’t believe the stuff that alarmist lefties peddle during confirmation battles.