In 1883, the 47th U.S. Congress enacted the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act. This act set in stone a rule that positions of government should not be handed out to those who support a particular political...

Judge Neil Gorsuch, 49, was appointed by President Donald Trump to be the next Supreme Court judge, replacing Judge Antonin Scalia who died in 2016. Gorsuch received his undergraduate degree from Columbia...