Posted on 02/10/2017 3:34:32 PM PST by Kaslin
HE ISN'T EVEN ON THE LIST/ON TRUMP'S RADAR!
I want another Justice like Thomas.
There are also too many unanswered questions about him....especially WHO recommended him.
Agree about the caution for this guy.
Diane Feinstein said she loved him. Can he truly be a conservative then?
Gorsuch didn't come out to correct the statement, he didn't deny that he said it, and sometimes, believe it or not, that POS Blumenthal tells the truth.
I don't like old Dickie, but I do know all about him and you don't.
So would I !
I agree entirely.
Booth was a manifest murderer, but he was also right: Lincoln was a tyrant who suspended Habeas corpus to wield the power of a tyrant.
The idea that the Civil War was necessary to end slavery is a Straw-Man argument; it presupposes that without that war, slavery would still be with us. There are many, less lethal, ways it could have been ended.
Industrialization - and population - was with the North, and leaving the South behind. Economic sanctions could have forced them to civilize and modernize.
The truth is that the South, slavery notwithstanding, had the right to secede - otherwise it is not Federalism, and is not a Federation of States.
Lincoln forever undermined Federalism, and made the Federal government, not the States, the supreme holder of power.
Anyway, what credit do the communistic blacks give to whites for the gruesome deaths of over 600,000 mostly white soldiers in the war that ended slavery? They still want “reparations”.
It may have better been ended in some more peaceful way. Then the black communists could hate us for not being willing to fight and die to end slavery.
“The Whigs in many ways (with some important differences) were a lot like Libertarians.”
I doubt that many Libertarians are going to agree with that idea.
The central feature of the Whig Party (1833) was Henry Clay’s economic program known as the ‘American System’.
That was a protective tariff, a national bank, and federal funding of internal improvements.
The Republican Party (1854) was formed out of the remains of the Whig Party, some anti-slavery Democrats, the nativist Know Nothing Party, the Free Soil Party.
Jefferson’s party (1799) was the Democratic-Republican Party, formed in opposition to the Federalist Party. It was agrarian, state’s rights, opposed to centralization. It eventually split (1824) into the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson and the National Republican Party, which along with the Anti-Masonic Party, created the Whigs.
He was vetted more than most other SCOTUS nominees. That’s good innit?
We will have an idea once the confirmation hearings begin whether this justice can be trusted or not.
Judge Napolitano has given him glowing reviews. That gives me confidence that we can.
Former Senator Kelly Ayotte, who is helping with Gorsuch’s comfirmation and attended the Blumenthal meeting, issued a statement acknowledging that Gorsuch said he finds any criticism of a judge’s integrity and independence to be “disheartening and demoralizing.” But Ayotte said that the nominee also made clear he was not referring to any specific comments. It may have been a comment applicable to himself. To not make comments about the rulings of another judge is a rule those in the Judiciary must follow. Blumenthal was twisting his words in order to attack Trump.
Why would he live with his mother? He is married and they have two children
He would live with his mother if he wanted to be more like David Souter.....
He's not a Muslim and Communist like that former arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave was
The War and the dynamic of North vs. South is quite a bit more complicated than the revisionists on both sides are willing to admit.
Bottom line: It was a war of a Planter Aristocracy against a financial/manufacturing Aristocracy in the North. The North was in fact plundering the wealth of the South. However it was wealth that few in the South had access to.
You've no doubt heard the expression "Rich man's war, Poor man's fight." This was especially true with the Civil War, and about 750,000 Americans died for two Aristocracies.
The war said NOT ONE DAMNED THING about the character of the MEN on either side.
As for Slavery, one should read an honest account of Jefferson Davis. While Davis was a product of his time, he had some views on slavery that were radically enlightened for a man of his status (Davis was unfortunately, a willing mouthpiece of the Planter Aristocracy).
And Ayotte shepherding Gorsuch around, doesn't engender any confidence.
I agree.
Yes, the wording does have consequences.
It certainly does.
Is that the same Neil Gorsuch who told a Democrat U.S. Senator that Trump's criticism of the judiciary was “disheartening” and “demoralizing?”
Can anyone at Free Republic imagine Scalia saying something like that?
I was instantly suspicious of Neil Gorsuch when I found out that he clerked for Supreme Court “swing voters” Byron White and Anthony Kennedy.
Gorsuch is another center-left John Roberts - if we're lucky.
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