Supreme Court’s newest justice has an elk as an office mate
WASHINGTON — When Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the Supreme Court earlier this year he got Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat, his office and his elk, Leroy.
In recent appearances, Gorsuch has been telling the story of how the elk — actually just its mounted head — came to be his office mate.
The story starts more than a decade ago when Scalia shot the elk on a hunting trip and had its head mounted and hung in his Supreme Court office.
Gorsuch explained at an event in Washington last week that after Scalia died in 2016 it seemed that the elk was destined “to become homeless.” That’s because the elk head, part of an animal estimated to have weighed around 900 pounds, is “much too much for anyone’s living room wall,” Gorsuch said.