pretender

Neil Gorsuch thinks himself Scalia's heir
imagining he'll sway with folksy prose
the colleagues who've been decades longer there
but where he looked for allies, he  makes foes.
The youngest Justice prates and condescends
expounding where he ought to keep it short
he alienates those he'd hoped were friends
pariah even on the Roberts court.
The stolen bench McConnell has bestowed
Obama might have filled to good effect
to salve a nation ready to explode.
But Mitch extends no atom of respect.
Judicial coup, defying precedent
erodes foundations of our government.