Peers from the across the political spectrum (but notably many
Liberal Democrats) voted for a number of measures which guarded
against the plans, including giving
judges, not Ministers, the say over the use of the secret trials.
Before former President George W. Bush nominated him to the 10th Circuit Court, Gorsuch wrote and spoke
against «judicial activism» and the perceived tendency of
liberal - leaning
judges to reinterpret longstanding laws as they saw appropriate.