Neil Gorsuch: Supreme Court nominee in his own words

When he agreed to deliver a major lecture at Case Western University School of Law early last year, Neil Gorsuch felt the time was ripe to urge reform of "the maddening maze of our civil justice system — its exuberant procedures that price so many out of court and force those in it to wade wearily through years and fortunes to win a judgment."

But then Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly — Gorsuch, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver, learned...