Gorsuch: <i>Roe v. Wade</i> Is the 'Law of the Land'

Updated at 5:42 p.m. ET

Democratic senators spent most of Tuesday’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing trying to pin down nominee Neil Gorsuch’s views on abortion, campaign-finance reform, gun rights, and a host of other contentious issues. They were largely unsuccessful. So in Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee session, they tried a new approach: warning Gorsuch about what they see as the consequences of his decisions in those spheres.

Front and center was abortion rights, a topic on which Gorsuch remains an enigma. The 49-year-old federal appellate judge from Colorado has never taken part in an abortion-related case in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, where he currently serves, nor has he written on the subject. During the campaign, President Trump vowed, but Gorsuch testified yesterday that neither Trump nor anyone else during the confirmation process had asked him to rule on the issue in a specific way. “Senator, I would’ve walked out the door” if they had, he told South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham yesterday.