We know Eric Fehrnstrom is no fan of Senator Warren (“Democrats overplay their hand,’’ Opinion, March 30), but he seems to think, rather absurdly, that Senator Warren’s defense of certain clients while she was a lawyer in private practice should preclude her from criticizing positions Judge Gorsuch has taken while sitting on the bench.

Lawyers defend clients and, often, good lawyers defend abhorrent clients. That’s the way our system works, and no lawyer should be considered hypocritical because they defended a client years earlier whose politics they now oppose or find distasteful. If lawyers didn’t have this freedom, our view of justice would be rather limited.

Judges, on the other hand, reveal in their decisions their own personal preferences and their biases, and reported decisions are obviously predictors of future decisions. It is only fair that Judge Gorsuch’s opinions as a federal judge be used to reveal the kind of judge he would be on the Supreme Court.

Marc Springer

Brookline