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It's not Neil Gorsuch's fault, but we can't support his ascension to a stolen Supreme Court seat
The Los Angeles Times ^ | March 25, 2017 | The Editorial Board

Posted on 03/25/2017 4:41:57 PM PDT by Trump20162020

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To: Kozak

That’s the relevant question here. Exactly what does the Socratic assemblage known as the LA Times’ editorial board suggest be done, not that they have found such fault with the current thinking?

Noww THAT’S an essay I’d love to read.


21 posted on 03/25/2017 4:55:24 PM PDT by VideoPaul
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To: Trump20162020

Drop the nuke. It will make easier on the next one.


22 posted on 03/25/2017 4:55:51 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: Trump20162020

These freaks need to go back a decade or so ago and see what Joe Biden had to say about it then

The Big EarthQuake can’t happen fast enough for me.


23 posted on 03/25/2017 4:55:51 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: sphinx

“I regard it as Robert Bork’s seat”

Good point.


24 posted on 03/25/2017 4:56:33 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Trump20162020

By “stolen” they mean “we stole Scalia’s seat fair and square.” Not buying it.


25 posted on 03/25/2017 4:56:48 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Trump20162020

I wonder if they’d had this opinion had George W. tried to nominate 3 Supremes? Probably not.


26 posted on 03/25/2017 4:56:57 PM PDT by Doche2X2
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To: Trump20162020

....on the hastily fabricated pretext that a president in his final year of office shouldn’t be allowed to name a new justice because … well, it was never really clear what the supposed principle was behind this self-serving position.


How quaint. The LA Times conveniently forgets the purpose was to prevent a Republican President from getting a Justice approved. JWB if I recall.

And it was their liberal cult leaders Biden and Schumer who proposed the rule. But Freepers know that.


27 posted on 03/25/2017 4:58:37 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: Trump20162020

Who cares what they think/say/feel. Suck it up. You lost.


28 posted on 03/25/2017 4:58:39 PM PDT by connyankee (#MAGABEGINS)
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To: Trump20162020

By this logic, no Supreme Court Justices should ever be confirmed going forward.


29 posted on 03/25/2017 4:58:53 PM PDT by sourcery (Non Acquiescit: "I do not consent" (Latin))
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To: be-baw
Why has the NYT not placed Gorsuch on a plot like this?


30 posted on 03/25/2017 4:59:43 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Bishop_Malachi
The judicial branch does feel the most powerful, doesn't it? I mean, you can get something with huge support from the people, Congress and the President, yet one lowly judge can simply say "meh, I don't like it," and keep it from going into effect for years, as it goes through the court system and appeals process.

Half the time, it doesn't even feel like they're basing their decision on the law or the Constitution. How else can something be constitutional according to the Supreme Court one year, then, a decade later, the same thing be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, despite the Constitution itself not having changed whatsoever in that time frame?

Not to mention, there are only nine judges on the U.S. Supreme Court, which gives their vote a lot more meaning than someone in the 435-member U.S. House, or 100-member U.S. Senate.

31 posted on 03/25/2017 5:00:19 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

With that childish and liberal mentality, it is good that that the editorial board of the LA Times has nothing to do with selecting Supreme Court Justices,


32 posted on 03/25/2017 5:04:42 PM PDT by falcon99
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To: Trump20162020

It was a conservative justice who the left murdered in the first place.

These fascist are willing to go to literal war for the power they seek. We will each have to make tough decisions soon.


33 posted on 03/25/2017 5:06:32 PM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: Kozak

Yes they are. The SC 4-4 split allows them to continue undermining the Trump administration with absurd 9th circuit court rulings.


34 posted on 03/25/2017 5:09:23 PM PDT by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: Trump20162020

IF THE CITIZENS OF THE USA HAD WANTED GARLAND, OR ANY OTHER LEFTIST, ON THE SCOTUS, THEY WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR HILLARY. Period.


35 posted on 03/25/2017 5:12:29 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Trump20162020

… well, it was never really clear what the supposed principle was behind this self-serving position

Ask Joe Biden!


36 posted on 03/25/2017 5:13:17 PM PDT by heshtesh ((New Yorker for Cruz))
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To: Trump20162020

The Times urged the Senate to confirm John Roberts
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They probably knew something we only found out more recently.


37 posted on 03/25/2017 5:13:36 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Hugin

>>We won, elections have consequences. Deal with it.

PS. Nobody really cares what the LA Times editors think.

<<

If the dims force the GOP to go nuclear (IMHO 80% chance) then the filibuster will be gone forever.

And Trump and Pence will have maybe 5 SCOTUS seats filled. Hopefully no turncoats like that SOB Roberts.


38 posted on 03/25/2017 5:13:44 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Not tired of winning yet!)
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To: Bishop_Malachi

Yep. In America the despots wear black robes.


39 posted on 03/25/2017 5:15:11 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Paladin2

Roberst needs to be a hair to the R of rdb. NOT way the hell on the R.

obozocare gave him a scarlet letter he can never erase.


40 posted on 03/25/2017 5:15:27 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Not tired of winning yet!)
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