Meet the judge who will hear the Boston legal challenge of Trump’s ban
The federal judge who will hear the closely watched Boston legal challenge of President Trump’s immigration ban is known as a no-nonsense jurist who takes a conservative but reasonable approach to cases and his views of the law, according to colleagues.
US Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton can appear stern from the bench, those who know him say, showing no appetite for courtroom theatrics or grandstanding. But those who have worked with him say his demeanor on the bench belies a deep thoughtfulness that allows him to put politics aside in weighing a case.
“He really just tries to get the right result,” said Roberto M. Braceras, an attorney at Goodwin Procter in Boston and a former federal prosecutor who clerked for Gorton at the start of his judicial career. “He’s a great guy, very smart, hard-working judge, very faithful to the law.”
On Friday, Gorton will hear arguments in the challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and local immigration lawyers to the president’s immigration order that temporarily banned immigrants from seven countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen — and all refugees from entering the US.
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