A failed comedian who never went to law school ends up on the Judiciary committee...
They’ll still vote against him.
Could just as well have the vote first thing tomorrow.
I hope he turns out to be what America needs.
Thanks a lot for posting this!
The trouble with Dems “landing a few punches” is that it’s like a butterfly landing on your nose. LOL. Enough of this “gotcha politician clown show”. Confirm Gorsuch and let’s move on. Enough with the childish games.
DiFi suffered blowback, richochet, and was schooled.
That last line is so absurd. The Dems are grasping desperately at straws.
I really enjoyed being 'schooled' by this knowledgeable Judge.
Gorsuch acquitted himself well. Given the political environment, does anyone believe he will be confirmed without the nuclear option?
It was very apparent that Gorsuch was in a totally different intellectual league than all Democrats and most Republicans on the committee.
Land punches? More like threw up onto his shoes.
I did like Gorsuch’s answer that all the hyphenated-Americans are persons deserving of equal treatment. I also wonder why the Democrats haven’t followed up on that, given their agenda to give preferences based on hyphenations.
With regard to original intent, some of the questions were simply weird. The Constitution has been amended several times. The amendments invoke not the intention of the Founders but the intentions of the amendors. Therefore, the 13th, 14th Amendment and 15th Amendment and the 19th Amendment tell us something either in the original document or in the Supreme Court’s interpretation of it up to the time of the amendment, has changed.
To illustrate, the Supreme Court could say Dred Scot was wrongly decided, and reverse itself. But, by reason of the 14th Amendment, the Dred Scot decision’s key determination - that persons of the African race could never be citizens of the United States - was rendered moot.
The original Republican position on Dred Scot, expressed by Lincoln in his Cooper Union speech, was that Dred Scot was wrongly decided. His original position was to seek to overturn Scot, possibly through the slow workings of the appointment process. A certain unpleasantness changed the plan.
Plessy v. Furgeson - the “separate but equal” ruling of the late 19th Century was eventually overturned by the Supreme Court. As to why the Supreme Court reversed itself, possibly it was because the doctrine was massively falsified by the fact that public schools for black children in the south were not at all equal to the public schools for white children in the south. Who knows, but if blacks actually had separate and equal schools and such, maybe we’d still be living in a segregated society.
You’ve got to have some faith in the process. We, the U.S., are still a work in progress.
This kind of gets to the application of the Constitution to changes in technology and other changes that could not have been anticipated by the Founders. For example. wiretaps on telephones. Obviously, there were no telephones at the time the 4th Amendment was ratified. At first, it wasn’t clear how the 4th Amendment applied to this new technology. Eventually, the Court determined that a warrant would be required.
Nowadays, we’re involved in yet another new technology: the internet, and whether the government can conduct massive eavesdropping in the name of national security or fighting terrorism or fighting drugs or other crime. Sorry, it’s not immediately obvious how the 4th Amendment applies. Have some confidence that we will work this through.
I am actually impressed that McConnell has Grorsuch seated by April 7th. That is really quick for a Supreme Court Judge.
Gorsuch’s sharpest retorts were prompted by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Al Franken (D-Minn.), who showed impatience with his repeated refusals to speak to his personal views.
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Sheldon seemed to be a little less constipated today though he’s always really impressed with himself. Franken acted like a rude, nasty clown.
What a disgusting spectacle. A bunch of degenerate, glad-handing, crooks get to attack their intellectual superior like that, and he has to sit there and take it.
A failed comedian who never went to law school ends up on the Judiciary committee...
It is beyond STUPID that the Schumer and Warren are trying to delay the vote over the Russian joke. It shows that they have nothing on Judge Gorsuch. I for one think that shutting down the filibuster would be refreshing. After all, it’s no longer sacrosanct after Reid fiddled with it in 2013. It’s likely just a matter of time before it’s shut down.
Gorsuch has to put up with these gutless brainless wonders to get confirmed. Then he can metaphorically tell them to kiss his ass as he’ll have a lifetime appointment.
That's when the balance of real power on the court will occur.