Gorsuch also slashed budgets,
cut back on enforcement and“treated a lot of people in the agency as the enemy,” in the words of her successor, William Ruckelshaus.
During the confirmation hearing of Judge Gorsuch to fill a vacancy on SCOTUS, Senator Charles
Schumer remarked that the Judge had been unable to sufficiently convince him that he would be an“independent check on a president who has shown almost no restraint from executive overreach”.