President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, appears to have copied both the language and structure from other writers in his 2006 book and an academic article, Politico reported.

His book, “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” included nearly identical language to an article published in the Indiana Law Journal in 1984, according to the report. Both the book and an article from 2000 included borrowed ideas, quotes and structures of scholarly and legal works without citation, the news outlet added.

The White House defended Gorsuch, telling Politico that the findings seemed to be an "attack" to discredit Gorsuch ahead of his confirmation vote to join the Supreme Court.

“This false attack has been strongly refuted by highly-regarded academic experts, including those who reviewed, professionally examined, and edited Judge Gorsuch’s scholarly writings, and even the author of the main piece cited in the false attack,” said White House spokesman Steven Cheung. “There is only one explanation for this baseless, last-second smear of Judge Gorsuch: those desperate to justify the unprecedented filibuster of a well-qualified and mainstream nominee to the Supreme Court.”

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Experts on plagiarism disagreed, however, with six different academics talking to Politico.

“Each of the individual incidents constitutes a violation of academic ethics. I've never seen a college plagiarism code that this would not be in violation of,” Rebecca Moore Howard, a Syracuse University professor and plagiarism scholar, said.

Elizabeth Berenguer, a law professor at Campbell Law School in Raleigh, N.C., said she would apply an academic writing standard.

“Even if it were a legal opinion, it would be plagiarism under either.”

The fight over Gorsuch's confirmation to the Supreme Court will come to a head on Thursday. Gorsuch is expected to fall short of the 60 votes needed to overcome an initial procedural hurdle.

In response, Senate Republicans will likely vote to change the rules, eliminating the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees and thus allowing them to move directly to a simple-majority vote.