Editor, Gazette-Journal:

I was prompted to write a response to a letter by Capt. Truscott in the April 12 edition. I found his letter about the Justice Gorsuch confirmation to be lucid, but the writer certainly perceived some different things than I observed.

The letter writer described Democrats as attempting to usurp control from the Senate’s elected majority, while I saw Democrats taking the same approach as has been taken by the opposition party for years to hold a Supreme Court nominee to a high standard. That was in contrast to the previous nominee, about whom all discussion of his qualifications was suppressed by a single member of the Senate’s majority party, then Republican, and confirmation was denied without discussion or vote due to that one Nevada Republican senator’s objection to the election, twice, of a Democrat as president.

This year, a spirited discussion took place but still the Republicans could not find enough support for an activist judge to ...