What Neil Gorsuch has said about United States Declaration of Independence
3 quotes · 1 episode · May 6, 2026
Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and co-author of Heroes of 1776, has been quoted on United States Declaration of Independence 3 times in 1 episode of The Megyn Kelly Show, most recently on May 6, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Gorsuch notes that independence was contingent, with only about 40 percent of colonists supporting it in June 1776.
“Only about 40 percent supported independence. Another 20 or 30 percent were were loyalists and the rest were pretty eager to stay out of it”
The Megyn Kelly Show: Katie Porter MELTDOWN, and Obama's Marriage Tension, with Sohrab Ahmari and Sean Davis, Plus Justice Gorsuch on America's 250th Birthday | Ep. 1311 (May 6, 2026) · Listen from 57:29
Gorsuch highlights that Americans celebrate a document and its ideas rather than a war or battle.
“We celebrate a document with those three great ideas that speak to every one of us”
The Megyn Kelly Show: Katie Porter MELTDOWN, and Obama's Marriage Tension, with Sohrab Ahmari and Sean Davis, Plus Justice Gorsuch on America's 250th Birthday | Ep. 1311 (May 6, 2026) · Listen from 59:32
Gorsuch describes the U.S. as a creedal nation united by the Declaration's ideas rather than religion or ethnicity.
“We are not founded around any religion or any particular ethnicity. What we share is a commitment to those three ideas”
The Megyn Kelly Show: Katie Porter MELTDOWN, and Obama's Marriage Tension, with Sohrab Ahmari and Sean Davis, Plus Justice Gorsuch on America's 250th Birthday | Ep. 1311 (May 6, 2026) · Listen from 1:21:07
Episodes
Katie Porter MELTDOWN, and Obama's Marriage Tension, with Sohrab Ahmari and Sean Davis, Plus Justice Gorsuch on America's 250th Birthday | Ep. 1311The Megyn Kelly Show · May 6, 2026 · 1 h 41 min
Megyn Kelly, Sohrab Ahmari and Sean Davis discuss the California governor debate, Obama and Iran; Justice Neil Gorsuch discusses his book Heroes of 1776.
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